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In this week, we wanted to bring you one of our favorite holiday stories ever.

So a lot of you might be familiar with the official Sansa tracker.

It's a website you can go on to follow the man himself, along with his eight reindeer

and Rudolph as he travels the world delivering presents.

But did you know it all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado Springs newspaper

and a call to Air Force Colonel Harry Schaup's secret hotline at the Continental Air Defense

Command, now known as NORAD.

Here's the story of how it all began, told by Colonel Schaup's three children.

Mary Van Kuren, Richard Schaup, and Pamela Farrell.

I remember two phones on his desk.

One was this red phone.

Only a four-star general at the Pentagon and my dad had the number.

This was the 50s.

This is the Cold War, and he would have been the first one to know if there was an attack

on the United States.

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