US First Lady Helps Children Track Santa

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　　Just as she did last year, the first lady took calls from the NORAD Tracks Santa program, run by the North American Aerospace¹ Defense² Command.

　　The military base has been telling anxious children about Santa's whereabouts every year since 1955, when a local newspaper advertisement giving a telephone number to speak to Santa mistakenly directed children to a military defense operations center. Officers on duty answered the children's questions and NORAD has been doing the same ever since.

　　Last year, more than 1,200 volunteers took shifts³ at NORAD's facility in the western state of Colorado to field more than 80,000 calls and countless⁴ emails from children asking where Santa was and when he might be coming to their homes to deliver presents.

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