tracking santa on christmas eve. the tracking story it started as an accident where a hot line for santa had a wrong number and connect to do some guy at norad and he made up the story. this is the height of the cold war. this phone was only supposed to be called by the president of the united states or the head of the military in the event of a nuclear attack. it rings on christmas eve in 1955 the colonel picks it up. instead of hearing some type of nuclear code or military warning he hears a little child s voice saying i want to speak to santa claus. that was the pastart of the tradition. he said i can see him on my radar. out of this tradition now comes your book which tells this delightful story of the night before christmas basically. but santa gets lost in a storm and all of a different branchs of the military come together to save the day. how important was it to