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dreamyxo

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Anyone remember Hands Across America?
« on: May 08, 2013, 09:51:35 pm »
I don't know why I just remembered this.  I remember my neighbors across the street from me participated.  I remember seeing them come back home wearing their tee shirts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands_Across_America

Hands Across America was a benefit event and publicity campaign staged on Sunday, May 25, 1986 in which approximately 6.5 million people held hands in a human chain for fifteen minutes along a path across the continental United States. Many participants donated ten dollars to reserve their place in line; the proceeds were donated to local charities to fight hunger and homelessness and help those in poverty.

    "On the afternoon of Sunday, May 25, 1986, almost seven million people joined hands to form a line that stretched 4,152 miles (6,682 km) – from New York City's Battery Park to the RMS Queen Mary pier in Long Beach, California. This nationwide event, called Hands Across America, was intended to raise money to fight hunger and homelessness."[this quote needs a citation]

In order to allow the maximum number of people to participate, the path linked major cities and meandered back and forth within the cities. There were undoubtedly many breaks in the chain, but enough people participated to form an unbroken chain across the 48 contiguous states if the participants had been spread evenly along the route standing four feet apart.

Hands Across America raised $34 million.

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Re: Anyone remember Hands Across America?
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2013, 11:29:13 pm »
Yes, I remember that happening, but I wasn't involved.  That was about the time I visited Hawaii and started a new program at my local tech school. 

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