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To: Libloather

Spent two Christmas Eve nights working in Vietnam as a Tactical Radar Controller. Just about everyone checking in on my frequency would report a near miss...with a fat guy in red with a sleigh and reindeer. Seems like only yesterday.


19 posted on 12/24/2014 2:41:47 PM PST by Portcall24
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To: Portcall24

In 1962, we had just come off the Cuban Missile crisis and were on edge. Then on Dec 24, the TV was interrupted for a BREAKING NEWS from NORAD, of something seen coming in over the DEW Line!

The pucker factor kicked in! Was it Russian Missiles? Is this IT!

Then they showed a poor photo of cotton clouds flying over a Santa Clause sleigh.

I have never trusted NORAD since. Too many false alarms.


21 posted on 12/24/2014 2:49:35 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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