
Mother’s Day Walk for Peace

Participants gathered at Town Field Park in Fields Corner in Dorchester Sunday morning for the 17th Annual Mother’s Day Walk for Peace.
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| May 12, 2013

Lila Bucklin, of Jamaica Plain, held a sign during the walk in support of her friend Ruthie Rollins, who lost her son, Warren Daniel Hairston, in 2007.
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Karen Murphy, of Easton, at right, participated in the walk. Murphy’s 20-year-old son, Robbie Murphy, was killed in Mashpee in 2011.
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Jeremiah Hall, 5 months, hitched a rainy ride on mother Jenny Hall’s shoulder. They’re both from Dorchester.
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Purple ribbons symbolized peace during the event.
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Scarlett Lewis’s 6-year-old son, Jesse, was killed in Newtown, Conn., in December. Tin Chery’s son, Louis Brown, was killed in 1993.
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