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NORAD: Omicron variant won t stop Santa Claus mission to spread joy in 2021

While the coronavirus pandemic has brought with it disappointments that have left some children worried or sad, Santa Claus expects to bring joy and merriment to them on his annual Christmas Eve globetrot. Yet COVID-19 concerns mean fewer volunteers at the Santa Operations Center to take calls.

Meet the Colorado colonel who started NORAD s Santa tracker

"He could have hung up, but he didn t," his daughter said. "He did the right thing and look what happened."

The Heartwarming Backstory of NORAD s Santa Tracker: It All Started With a Newspaper Misprint

The Heartwarming Backstory of NORAD s Santa Tracker: It All Started With a Newspaper Misprint People 12/25/2020 © Provided by People Getty Santa Claus The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has been tracking Santa s sleigh and his nine reindeer since 1955, allowing children throughout the country to keep tabs on the man in red as he makes his Christmas deliveries each year. © Getty Santa Claus But the NORAD tracker wouldn t have ever existed were it not for a misprint in a Colorado Springs newspaper. The children of Col. Harry Shoup, former commander of the Continental Air Defense Command, told the story of how the tracker came to be on NPR s StoryCorps.

NORAD Santa Tracker celebrates 65 years — here s how tradition began

NORAD Santa Tracker celebrates 65 years — here s how tradition began
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A child calling Santa reached NORAD instead Christmas Eve was never the same

The military s famous Santa Tracker began with a wrong number. Written By: Washington Post | × Air Force Col. Harry Shoup, commander of Continental Air Defense Command Operations Center. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Col. Harry Shoup was a real by-the-book guy. At home, his two daughters were limited to phone calls of no more than three minutes (monitored by an egg timer) and were automatically grounded if they missed curfew by even a minute. At work, during his 28-year Air Force career, the decorated fighter pilot was known as a no-nonsense commander and a stickler for rules. Which makes what happened that day in 1955 even more of a Christmas miracle.

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