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Every year, the excitement of Christmas reaches its peak as NORAD tracks Santa's journey around the globe.

For the 61st year, the organization charged with the air defense of the United States will spend December tracking the movements of the jolly man in red and his 9 reindeer.

The U.S. and Canadian military will entertain millions of kids again this Christmas Eve with second-by-second updates on Santa's global whereabouts. But there's something new this year: Public criticism.

When I was a little girl, we just to run down to the end of the front walkway and look up at the stars, past the big fruitless mulberries, and try to get a glimpse of Santa. This was the last thing we did before we went to bed for the night before Christmas...