BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Washington Natl Cathedral -- Illumination: Wear Orange (2021)

DC -- Washington Natl Cathedral -- Illumination: Wear Orange (2021):

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Description of Pictures: Lighting the Way to End Gun Violence
Friday, June 4, 2021 | 9:00pm
The façade of the Washington National Cathedral will be lit orange in honor of National Gun Violence Awareness Day and the over 100,000 Americans killed and injured in the United States every year by gun violence. The Bourdon Bell will ring 120 times at 9 pm in memory of Americans who die daily from gunfire.
The lighting and tolling are part of the national Wear Orange Weekend organized by Everytown for Gun Safety. Wear Orange originated in June 2015 on what would have been Hadiya Pendleton’s 18th birthday. Hadiya was a young girl shot and killed in Chicago at the age of 15. Following her death, her friends wore orange in her honor and asked us to stand up and speak up. Since then, orange has been the defining color of the gun violence prevention movement. We honor survivors of gun violence each year on the first weekend in June. Learn more at www.wearorange.org.
This lighting is sponsored by the Cathedral Congregation’s Gun Violence Prevention Ministry. To learn more and get involved, email congregation@cathedral.org.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. ORANGE_210604_032.JPG: Why orange? National Gun Violence Awareness Day June 4, 2021 The Cathedral "wears orange" with orange lights on National Gun Violence Awareness Day to honor victims and survivors of gun violence and to show support for common-sense laws to prevent continued gun violence. Orange is the color Hadikya Pendleton's friends wore in her honor after she was shot and killed in Chicago. Pendleton was a 15-year-old honor student, gunned down in a public park just a week after she and her high school band marched in President Obama's 2013 inaugural parade. Tonight we toll the Bourdon bell 120 times, representing the average number of deaths each day by guns in 2020. In 2020, 43,554 people were killed by guns: * An increase of 10% from 2019 * 55% (24,156) were suicide * Americans are 25% more likely to be killed in a gun homicide than residents of other high income countries * Emotional toll of gun violence on individuals and communities is unmeasurable and lasts for generations Gun injury statistics are unreliable but: * estimates suggest injuries are roughly 2-3 times more than deaths * average hospitalization stay costs $95,000 * annual health care spending for gun-related injuries is roughly $2.8 billion -- $175-200 billion if indirect costs such as long-term healthcare, loss of productivity, and policing costs are included.
2. ORANGE_210604_042.JPG: United to Stop Gun Violence
3. ORANGE_210604_083.JPG: Logan, from Atmosphere Inc., the lighting company contracted to do the illuminations.
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