Posted on 07/25/2004 8:44:06 PM PDT by Cinnamon Girl
Go away.
*sniff* aw, geez... I was only havin' a little fun, Miss Cinnamon. *sniff*.
Sounds great to me... ping me and let me know where you need be to be...
Sounds great to me... ping me and let me know where you need be to be... I'm in the Burbank area but will travel..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands_Across_America
Hands Across America was a benefit event staged on May 25, 1986 in which millions of people held hands for fifteen minutes along a path across the continental United States. Participants paid ten dollars to reserve their place in line; the profits were donated to local homeless charities.
"On the afternoon of Sunday, May 25, 1986, more than five million people joined hands to form a line that stretched 4,152 miles – from New York City's Battery Park to a pier in Long Beach, California. This much-hyped mega-event, called Hands Across America, was intended to raise money to fight hunger and homelessness." [1] (http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id248.htm)
Enough people participated to form an unbroken chain across the country if the path were a straight line. However, there were many breaks in the chain. In order to allow the maximum number of people to participate, the path linked major cities and meandered back and forth within the cities.
Cities along the route included the following:
New York City, New York
Trenton, New Jersey
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (the first break in the chain west of New York was reported to be in Maryland)
Baltimore, Maryland
Washington, D.C.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
Toledo, Ohio
Indianapolis, Indiana
Chicago, Illinois (the longest unbroken section of the chain was allegedly in Illinois)
Springfield, Illinois
St. Louis, Missouri
Memphis, Tennessee
Little Rock, Arkansas
Amarillo, Texas
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Phoenix, Arizona (desert areas were mostly empty, dotted with one-mile-long chains of people. Truck drivers driving along the route sounded their horns during the appointed time.)
San Bernardino, California
Santa Monica, California
Long Beach, California
The event was conceived and organized by Ken Kragen. A theme song titled Hands Across America was played simultaneously on hundreds of radio stations at 3:00 Eastern time (noon Pacific time) to add to the festive atmosphere of the event.
I called Bush-Cheney today...let's give them this idea:
Phone: 703.647.2700
Fax: 703.647.2993
Email Addresses:
General Information:
BushCheney04@GeorgeWBush.com
It should be easy enough to get some local talk shows involved with promotion, along with the local GOP. I'm so IN.
BTTT! If you go along Route 40, I'm with you! Has someone plotted a route to really get this going?
Oh yeah. A cross would set them off big time.
Let's do that! :)
I sent the following. I would love to take part.
Found this proposal at FreeRepublic at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1178474/posts. I love the idea and would love to be in on it. I am in Michigan can you offer help?
My name and private email address (edited out for this post)
How amazing would it be if the human chain went all the way to the convention and ended with President Bush! We'd all be connected to the President!
7,307,520 = the number of people needed if there is an average separation of 3 feet per. (4,152 miles as in the 80s that hand's across america thing)
You go girl!! Count me "IN" !!!
MOM! He's touching me!!
Stop touching ME!!!!
I'm NOT touching you!!!
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