SOURCE: The Washington Post
12-24-2018
tags: Christmas, NORAD, Santa
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12-24-2018
A child calling Santa reached NORAD instead. Christmas Eve was never the same.
Breaking Newstags: Christmas, NORAD, Santa
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 stickler for rules.
Which makes what happened that day in 1955 even more of a Christmas miracle.
It was a December day in Colorado Springs when the phone rang on Col. Shoup’s desk. Not the black phone, the red phone.
“When that phone rang, it was a big deal,” said Shoup’s daughter, Terri Van Keuren, 69, a retiree in Castle Rock, Colo. “It was the middle of the Cold War and that phone meant bad news.” ...
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