Christmas Eve 1914

24 Dec 2014 17:12 #1 by otisptoadwater
A testament to the power of the Christmas spirit.



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I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.

"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford

Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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24 Dec 2014 17:40 - 24 Dec 2014 17:41 #2 by ScienceChic
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This one's been making the rounds quote a bit lately, but is totally worth the read!

NORAD's Santa Tracker Began With A Typo And A Good Sport
December 19, 2014

This Christmas Eve people all over the world will log on to the official Santa Tracker to follow his progress through U.S. military radar. This all started in 1955, with a misprint in a Colorado Springs newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret hotline at the Continental Air Defense Command, now known as NORAD.

Shoup's children, Terri Van Keuren, 65, Rick Shoup, 59, and Pam Farrell, 70, recently visited StoryCorps to talk about how the tradition began.

Terri remembers her dad had two phones on his desk, including a red one. "Only a four-star general at the Pentagon and my dad had the number," she says.

The red phone rang one day in December 1955, and Shoup answered it, Pam says. "And then there was a small voice that just asked, 'Is this Santa Claus?' "

His children remember Shoup as straight-laced and disciplined, and he was annoyed and upset by the call and thought it was a joke — but then, Terri says, the little voice started crying.

"And Dad realized that it wasn't a joke," her sister says.

Read more to learn how it morphed into tracking Santa with radar. :) What a great decision by a forward-thinking leader.
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Track his progress here: www.noradsanta.org/

"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther

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24 Dec 2014 20:06 #3 by FredHayek
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Officers made sure the Christmas truce never happened again but troops on the lines did start to adopt a live and let live approach in the trenches, arrange shelling to hit no man lands instead of occupied enemy fortifications and shooting but trying not to hit enemy troops.

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