Operation North Pole

I remember two phones one was t Only a four-star general at the Pentagon and my dad had the n T So first couple weeks of December in 1955, dad was at the office and the red phone rang. He answered it. T Dad was very straight-laced, very disciplined. He was annoyed. He was upset. He thought it was a joke. Yeah, and so now the little voice is crying. And dad realized that it wasn't a joke. So he'd talk to And the mother got on and said, you haven't seen the paper yet? There's a phone n It's in the Sears ad. Dad looked it up and there it was, his red phone n And they had c So he put a couple airmen on the phones to act It got to be a big joke at the command center. We're answering Santa Claus. The airmen had t And when airplanes would come in, they would track them. And Christmas Eve of 1955, when dad walked in, there was a drawing of a sleigh with eight reindeer coming over the North Pole. Dad said, what is that? T Were just making a joke. Do you want us to take that down? Dad looked at it for a w And next thing And we have an unidentified flying object. Why it looks Well, the radio stations would call him And later in life, he got letters from all over the world, people saying, thank you, Colonel, for having, you know, this sense of h And in his 90s, he would carry those letters around with him in a briefcase that had a lock on it, But t He was probably the t Oh, sure. Yeah.