Real men — and women — wear pink

Dave SandersMembers from PS 233 in Brooklyn wore specially ordered pink shirts for the occasion.

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According to Google, pink is not only the color of universal love but the color of good health and life. So the sea of pink — shirts, ties, T-shirts, hats, blouses and even shoes — that marked Pink Day on or around Oct. 19 in schools and classrooms across the city symbolized the concerted effort of UFTers to halt the scourge of breast cancer and keep everyone healthy and “in the pink.”

School communities, as they have been doing each October for the last decade, organized Pink Days and other events to help raise awareness, support family and friends suffering from breast cancer and raise funds for research.

Miller PhotographyFollowing their own Making Strides march on each floor of the K–5 Brooklyn school — rain canceled their annual outdoor march — all of PS 346’s 750 students and staff fill the auditorium to proclaim their support of Pink Day. The children wrote thoughts about the event on the pink papers they are waving. Their work was then used to decorate the hallways. Chapter Leader Veronica Wilensky spoke of the “really wonderful” support of parents and staff in raising funds for breast cancer awareness every year.