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swans
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http://www.noradsanta.org/en/

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Posted : December 24, 2011 5:42 pm
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Thanks Swans - I love the fact that they do this.
This is some background on how this started:

Last year, NORAD Tracks Santa volunteers answered 80,000 phone calls on Christmas Eve, Creech said. They also answered 7,000 emails.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command has been telling anxious children about Santa's whereabouts every year since 1955. That was the year a Colorado Springs newspaper ad invited kids to call Santa on a hotline, but the number had a typo, and dozens of kids wound up talking to the Continental Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD's predecessor.

The officers on duty played along and began sharing reports on Santa's progress. It's now a deep-rooted tradition at NORAD, a joint U.S.-Canada command that monitors the North American skies and seas from a control center at Peterson.

Thanks to the over 1200 volunteers who give up their time on Christmas Eve!!!!!!!!

 
Posted : December 25, 2011 5:21 am
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