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Showing Original Post only (View all)Know that thing they do every Christmas Eve where they have NORAD "track" Santa's sleigh? [View all]
They're doing it again this year...but this time, Santa will be flanked by a pair of fighter jets.
Boston Globe:
As Santa streaks through the sky this Christmas Eve, Rudolph merrily guiding the way, he will be flanked by some new and unusual companions: a jet-fighter escort, bristling with missiles.
That is the twist that to the dismay of at least some child advocates the US military has chosen to put on this years version of its traditional animated tracking of the yuletide journey.
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But as the word gets out, the plan is taking flak. Some say the Pentagon appears to have lost its way by introducing destructive weaponry to the otherwise jolly image of Santa setting out from the North Pole. Up to now, the most threatening aspect of Santas flight had been lumps of coal.
Children associate Santa with gifts and fun and everything else that is positive about Christmas, said Allen Kanner, a California child and family psychologist and cofounder of the Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood. They are associating this with the military in childrens minds. It is completely out of line.
The rest: http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/12/02/pentagon-tracking-santa-with-new-twist-armed-jet-fighters/aFYyrQhOjNlZw9OnsKSWQM/story.html?s_campaign=email_BG_TodaysHeadline
Brand loyalty, you see. Get 'em young. Because 'Merica.