I hope you're enjoying this season of joy! In case you were not aware, I wanted to let you know about a great service that lets you track Santa Claus as he travels throughout the world, delivering gifts. It all began with a phone call from one little boy, to talk to Santa Claus at the mall. But the newspaper had printed the number wrong, so he got instead a division of the Air Force. The man there, Col. Harry Shoup, played along, recognizing the importance to the child. He made sure that all of Santa's calls would be fielded properly that December. This is how the military got involved in delivering a Christmas tradition to many families, who use NORAD's Santa Tracker to keep up with Santa's whereabouts. They also still answer phone calls from curious children.
https://www.norad.mil/About-NORAD/NORAD-Tracks-Santa/
https://www.noradsanta.org/en-US/assets/map/embed.html
This is a heart-warming thing that went viral, in the days before "viral" became a thing. I remember tracking Santa when my son was small, too.
ReplyDeleteIt's not Christmas, but I published this now, because it was being saved as a draft for a long time. I had several posts like that, that I just went ahead and published, even though they aren't all done. This one was done enough, though. Maybe I was going to add some more pictures. This is such a cute story! When I was a kid, we didn't know anything about this. But there was someone who we knew of that was writing special letters to children as an elf at the North Pole. My friends got a letter and I was so awed, but I knew that their dad paid someone to write it. It was just so sweet!
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