Lined up outside the gates of the city's swimming pool, the children of Alexandria, Ind., began chanting "We saved the pool!"
Then they stood shoulder-to-shoulder on a cool June day with hardy adults and jumped in the water together.
Their summer had been saved.
Families and business owners all over are collecting money to keep open pools that their cities can't afford.
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