Santa Claus being tracked

The air alarm phone in the monitoring hall suddenly rang between ...... and the staff officer on duty, Colonel Shoup, grabbed the phone and a clear child's voice came from the receiver: "Are you Santa Claus? This is Lina, did you get the letter I sent you? I'm a good boy, very good and obedient, I'm waiting for your Christmas present."

Colonel Shoup said, "Hello, Lina! I'm not Santa Claus, I'm Colonel Shoup."

"Oh ...... you are Colonel Shoup ...... I sent a letter to Santa Claus more than twenty days ago, do you know where he is now?" The child asked with disappointment but reluctance evident in his tone.

Colonel Shoup really can't bear to let this lovely child too wrong hope, so replied: "I can turn on the radar to track Santa Claus ...... Oh, by the way, Santa Claus is on his way south ...... "

What happened to a child's phone call that reached Air Defense Command? It also starts with a wonderful coincidence.

Seven-year-old Lina is a naive and lively little Washington girl with a loving mom and dad and loving grandparents at home. Just over twenty days ago, Lina's grandchildren were lucky enough to participate in a visit to Santa Claus, and the idea of writing a letter to Santa was born.

In her letter, Lina reported her good show to Santa Claus, and at the same time, she quietly informed him that her Christmas stocking had been put away, waiting for Santa Claus to get into her chimney and deliver a mysterious gift.

Lina sends the letter to Santa's cave at the North Pole. She did not want her letter to be returned by the humorless Washington post office, and put a sticker on it saying "address unknown, no such person". Lina's father got this returned letter, in order not to let the child that a beautiful child's heart lost, will be this letter hidden, ready to own in the name of Santa Claus to reply, but never thought about how to revive it.

Because of the delay in receiving Santa's letter, but also did not receive Santa's gift, Lina can not help but some anxiety, so opens the day to the home of the Washington Post, looking for Santa's phone number ready to ask, did not expect to let her smoothly find out.

It turned out that a toy company had placed an ad in the Washington Post: "Santa Claus drives a nine-headed reindeer (reindeer) pulling the sleigh, with gifts for children, traveling around the world. Based on the wealth of information that Rock has collected over the years tracking Santa Claus, we believe that Santa exists and that he lives in the hearts of children around the world." The toy company also makes a point of "providing" Santa's phone number on the front of the ad. But because of a typographical error, a number was omitted, which happened to be an air marshal's phone number of the North American Continental Air Defense Command in advance. Thus, the interesting conversation between Lina and Colonel Shoup at the beginning of the article.

Colonel Shoup immediately reported the incident to the command's top officer, General Scott, who stopped Colonel Shoup's test and said, "You did nothing wrong, you sheltered a pure child's heart, and it was a vivid rumor.'

Soon the phone became a hotline and from time to time children called in to ask about Santa's whereabouts, so, at General Scott's suggestion, it was decided to make a mistake and change the number that Lina had called into a Santa line, and Colonel Shoup used the phone to get in touch with Lina's mom and dad.

When Lina learned from her mom and dad that Santa Claus was coming to Washington, she quickly informed her grandparents of the good news. That night, Lina was so excited that she couldn't sleep, when she heard her dad shout from the living room, "Lina, here's your letter!" Lina ran to the living room and took the letter from her dad's hand. She looked at it and saw that it was a letter from Lapland at the North Pole, with a beautiful angel painted on the envelope and a Santa Claus stamp. As if she had thought of something, Lina took the letter and ran to another room.

It turned out that Lina was looking for her Christmas stocking, and just as Lina had hoped, the stocking was stuffed with Christmas gifts. Lina showed the gifts she had received while opening the letter: "Dear Lina, I am very happy to learn that you are very good and obedient ...... give you chewing gum, is to hope that your breath is fresh The words spit out lovely and sweet; give you drawing pencil, I believe you can use it to draw your bright future; give you life preserver lollipop, is to hope that you in others encounter difficulties, brave to lend a helping hand ...... I have to send gifts to other children to go, wish you a Merry Christmas!"

Plus the North American Continental Air Defense Command (later North American Marine Division Command), who knew there were millions of cute kids like Lina, looking forward to Santa's Christmas presents. Since then, the command has taken on the obligation of tracking Santa Claus, "locking" Santa's location in real-time via radar, and forecasting his next destination, which is posted on the command's special website. Every year before Christmas, children have to open the website, joyfully inquiring, tracking, looking forward to ...... where Santa Claus arrives, where the children will receive a mysterious gift from their relatives in the name of Santa Claus quietly...