Santa wasn't the only familiar face in the crowd. (Zac Gooch/KTUU-TV)
Don’t you just love that little snark. Others just don’t seem interested.
ping to GG
Santa wasn't the only familiar face in the crowd. (Zac Gooch/KTUU-TV)
sorry - SAra is the current Govenor taking a photo op.
Operation Santa started in 1956. Flying a C123J (Wow!) out to the St MAry’s Mission, hit by spring floods (no fish) and a drought (no hunting). The trip was to deliver food to prevent starving - but the Guardsmen rehabbed some older toys - and picked a few new ones and a tradition was born.
Once again, the “evil pig military” of the US showing more heart than can be described.
SAra is just a straphanger on this one folks...
For more see
http://www.ak-prepared.com/dmva/Press_Releases/2008/08_october/Operation%20Santa%20Claus%2008.pdf
http://www.ngb.army.mil/news/archives/2006/11/110306-AK_OSC.aspx
http://www.af.mil/photos/media_search.asp?page=2&q=claus for photos from last years sleigh ride!
Ooorah - go Blue.
Palin went with Santa through Operation Santa Claus (through the Alaska National guard) and visited the village of Kivalina, 80 miles north of the Arctic Circle! It sounded like a sweet event (with Ice cream, which sounds weird but I guess you don't have to have in a freezer outside is nice) and very telling of the woman Palin is.