On Christmas Eve, a special look at the origins of NORAD’s Santa tracker

Woman:

Well, the radio stations would call him like every hour and say, where’s Santa now?

And later in life, he got letters from all over the world, people saying, “Thank you, Colonel, for having this sense of humor.”

And in his 90s, he would carry those letters around with him in a briefcase that had a lock on it, like it was top secret information. He was an important guy. But this is the thing he’s known for.

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