Releasing doves

Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times / June 29, 2009

Students from 186th Street Elementary School join Fereidun Shokatfard in releasing doves as a symbol of peace. Shokatfard, whose wife teaches at the 186th Street school, came up with the idea for the book

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