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    Am sitting here with son, watching Santa make his journey across the globe delivering prezzies.......


    The story behind the NORAD Santa tracker is so sweet that you’d think it came straight out of a movie. The tradition started in 1955, when a Sears Roebuck ad misprinted the number of its Santa hotline and instead printed the number of the operations hotline for the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD). Col. Harry Shoup, the director of operations at that time, decided to play along and directed his staff to look for the jolly old elf on the radar screen. That organization eventually became NORAD, which took up the tradition in 1958.


    NORAD is partnering with Microsoft and its Bing maps for the Santa Tracker for the second year, and also offers games, movies, music and history on its storied tradition. (The sponsorship also means that the program doesn’t cost taxpayers a dime.) The program has run into a bit of a kerfuffle this year because some objection to one of its annual traditions — giving Santa an unarmed jet escort — made headlines earlier this month.



    As the Associated Press reported, the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood objected to the inclusion of fighter jets in the story. U.S. Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a spokesman for NORAD, told the AP that he understands the criticism but disagrees that it promotes violence.

    Link: Official NORAD Santa Tracker
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