The Wall

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 contiguous 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.

In order to allow the maximum number of people to participate, the path linked major cities and meandered back and forth within the cities. Just as there were sections where the “line” was six to ten people deep, there were also undoubtedly many breaks in the chain. However, enough people participated that if an average of all the participants had been taken and spread evenly along the route standing four feet (1.2 m) apart, an unbroken chain across the 48 contiguous states would have been able to be formed.

Hands Across America raised $34 million. According to The New York Times, only about $15 million was distributed after deducting operating costs.

So could this be the wall?

Think about it.

Job creations of food trucks, sun protection, t-shirts, bottled water; then permanent housing, replacements, medical care, transportation, education, electricity, lighting, policing, pubs and fast food sites, roads, plumbing, and churches.

or this…

One of Christo and the late Jeanne-Claude’s first large-scale projects was here in Colorado. In August 1972, the couple unfurled a 250,000-square-foot orange curtain across the 1,250-foot-wide Rifle Gap, where it rippled over Colorado 325 north of Rifle for about 27 hours before shredding in high winds. A previous attempt in October 1971 was thwarted by high winds, which damaged the curtain.