Volunteers track Santa's progress, answer calls
Source: AP-Excite
By DAN ELLIOTT
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) - Most of the thousands of children who call the annual Santa-tracking operation at a Colorado Air Force Base on Christmas Eve ask the usual questions: "Where's Santa, and when will he get here?"
So volunteer Sara Berghoff was caught off-guard Monday when a child called to see if Santa could be especially kind this year to the families affected by the Connecticut school shooting.
"I'm from Newtown, Connecticut, where the shooting was," she remembers the child asking. "Is it possible that Santa can bring extra presents so I can deliver them to the families that lost kids?"
Sara, just 13 herself, was surprised but gathered her thoughts quickly. "If I can get ahold of him, I'll try to get the message to him," she told the child.
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Volunteers take phone calls from children asking where Santa is and when he will deliver presents to their house, during the annual NORAD Tracks Santa Operation, at the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, at Peterson Air Force Base, in Colorado Springs, Colo., Monday Dec. 24, 2012. Over a thousand volunteers at NORAD handle more than 100,000 thousand phone calls from children around the world every Christmas Eve, with NORAD continually projecting Santa's supposed progress delivering presents. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)because I remember watching the Miracle on 42 St. The one with Natalie Wood as the skeptical child. Santa is about hope and that's why I love the idea of NORAD tracking HOPE aka Santa Claus around the world on Christmas Eve.
cpamomfromtexas
(1,247 posts)My Son got the coolest calls, from Europe, Africa, and other places. He was thrilled!
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)I never knew about the volunteers.