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Where's Santa? Track Him Live from Grosse Pointe!
The North American Aerospace Defense Command has a website that now offers a Santa tracker mobile app to follow the jolly man's magical flight.
They sent him their wish lists, sat on his lap, and left cookies and milk for his arrival. Now the only thing left for children—from Grosse Pointe and around the world—to do is track Santa's progress as he delivers gifts around the world on Christmas Eve. Thanks to the folks behind the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) website, families worldwide can now follow Santa's Christmas journey in real time. The tradition started in 1955 after an advertisement for Sears Roebuck & Co. misprinted a telephone number for a special "Santa hotline." Instead of reaching Kris Kringle, the number put kids through to the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Commander-in-Chief’s operations, according to a description on the NORAD Tracks …
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8:21 am on Monday, December 24, 2012
The most elusive threat to our national airspace versus the most advanced radar and satelite network of all time. A battle for the ages. Bring it on, fat man. In all seriousness, the story about how they came to do this every year is one of those Christmas stories that brings tears to my eyes. It's great to see such an instrument of war put to such a use, if only for one day a year. That said, I … more ›