Merry Christmas! I am just now getting to bed..it is 1:19a..just finished wrapping the kiddos gifts and bringing in the big stuff..that has been hidden in friends garages. LOL!
Harry Shoup is the man who started all this 52 years ago, after taking a very strange phone call.
"Oh my goodness, I'll never forget it," Shoup says. On Dec. 24, 1955, he was a colonel in charge of a massive radar system built to give the U.S. early warning of the Soviet attack many people feared was imminent. The Cold War was at its height. The Pentagon was building nuclear missiles, the Kremlin doing the same. At his windowless base in Colorado Springs, Colo., in front of a massive map of the world, Shoup was keeping watch for Communist bombers.
"The red phone rang," he says. That never happened, and it meant huge trouble. The red phone was the emergency line: It could only be his commander calling, or the Pentagon. "I picked it up and I said: 'Yes, sir? This is Colonel Shoup.' "
There was no answer for a moment. Then came the hesitant voice of a small boy. "Are you really Santa Claus?" ...
Merrry Christmas Sue to you and your lovely family, we hope you had a wondeful day and thank you for sharing the tracking of Santa, so cute!! Jenn and Jacqui
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Merry Christmas to you and your sweet family! May God bless you all!
Merry Christmas,SusieQ, to you and your lovely family. Wishing you a joyful celebration of many laughs and lots of love.
Susie, wishing you & your family a wonderful holiday season. Toni
Merry Christmas!
I am just now getting to bed..it is 1:19a..just finished wrapping the kiddos gifts and bringing in the big stuff..that has been hidden in friends garages. LOL!
last i saw, Santa was flying through the arch in St. Louis!
I wish for you and yours the merriest of Christmases filled with family, love, food and fun and many memory making moments.
Christmas hugs sweet friend!
Kat
Hi Susie!! Hope you and your family had a marvelous Christmas!
Penny
the origin of NORAD tracking Santa:
Harry Shoup is the man who started all this 52 years ago, after taking a very strange phone call.
"Oh my goodness, I'll never forget it," Shoup says. On Dec. 24, 1955, he was a colonel in charge of a massive radar system built to give the U.S. early warning of the Soviet attack many people feared was imminent. The Cold War was at its height. The Pentagon was building nuclear missiles, the Kremlin doing the same. At his windowless base in Colorado Springs, Colo., in front of a massive map of the world, Shoup was keeping watch for Communist bombers.
"The red phone rang," he says. That never happened, and it meant huge trouble. The red phone was the emergency line: It could only be his commander calling, or the Pentagon. "I picked it up and I said: 'Yes, sir? This is Colonel Shoup.' "
There was no answer for a moment. Then came the hesitant voice of a small boy. "Are you really Santa Claus?" ...
Merrry Christmas Sue to you and your lovely family, we hope you had a wondeful day and thank you for sharing the tracking of Santa, so cute!! Jenn and Jacqui
Thanks Susie..I am back home safe and look forward to a new start.
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