It began 70 years ago when a five-year-old called a top-secret emergency line reserved for the U.S. president and four-star generals and asked, “Hello, is this Santa?”
It was December 1955 — the height of the Cold War. The phone that rang was big and red, only to be used during an international emergency.
That wrong number — and many others that followed because of a simple typo in a newspaper ad — ended up launching a mission like none other for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD: to develop a tracking system allowing families to follow Santa’s journey around the world.
Since then, the Santa Tracker has become a source of joy for millions of children.
You’re upset because a PR site from an organization run by a branch of the US military is US centric? Get a grip dude. There are plenty of reasons to hate the US, but this really isn’t one of them.
I’m talking specifically about the translation. Are you saying the German and other versions are meant for a US audience?