I know how we can fix the problem of poverty in this country

[bluestateguy]

We should all hold hands in a human chain across the country and sing songs for 15 minutes.

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. From New York, where 200,000 people participated, the line crossed the East River by means of the George Washington Bridge. Passing through New Jersey and Pennsylvania, it dipped down to the nation's capital and across the White House grounds before extending to Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis and Dallas. Continuing across the desert Southwest, through Albuquerque and Phoenix, it came to an end at Long Beach, having crossed sixteen states in all. For fifteen minutes, beginning at 3 p.m. EST, participants joined hands and sang "We Are The World," "America the Beautiful," and the Hands Across America theme. Among those who took part: Jazzercisers, Hell's Angels, disabled teenagers and nursing home residents, Hopi and Navajo Indians, 500 Little Leaguers at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium, numerous celebrities, and President Ronald Reagan.

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