MILITARY MILITARY FACES Senior Marine officer PACAF leaders say Updating cult teen classic escapes punishment readiness required for ‘The Craft’ for sensibilities for exchange theft Chinese aggression of the more modern witch Page 3 Page 4 Page 18 No. 4 Notre Dame upsets No. 1 Clemson » Back page stripes.com Volume 79, No. 146 ©SS 2020 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas New museum 2020 ELECTION shows war from soldiers’ perspective BY COREY DICKSTEIN Stars and Stripes FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Seven- ty lifelike figures in uniform and bearing arms portray American soldiers from the Revolutionary War to the Afghanistan War are spread throughout the National Museum of the United States Army, set to open to the public on Veterans Day. The figures form centerpieces for the museum’s six main galler- ies that reflect the Army’s history from its militia roots in the early 1600s through its roles in ongo- ing wars in the Middle East, mu- seum officials said Thursday. The chronologically arranged galler- ies feature unique artifacts, short vignettes about soldiers’ personal experiences at war and interac- tive displays that explain things like the music soldiers listened to in the era and the food they ate. Tammy Call, the museum’s di- rector, said it was important that visitors experience the chrono- logical history of the Army, to SEE MUSEUM ON PAGE 5 PAUL SANCYA/AP President-elect Joe Biden, left, and his wife, Jill Biden, right, watch fireworks with family after Biden’s address Saturday in Wilmington, Del. Biden: ‘Let’s give each other a chance’ President-elect calls for reconciliation, unity; Trump continues to reject result BY WILL WEISSERT ‘ It’s time tion came even as President Don- disappointment,” Biden said dur- Associated Press ald Trump continued to argue that ing a drive-in event in Wilmington, to put away the election had been stolen from Del. “It’s time to put away the harsh WILMINGTON, Del. — Joe Biden the harsh him, an indication that the divisive rhetoric, lower the temperature, see used his first national address as politics that have gripped the U.S. each other again.” president-elect to vow to heal a deep- rhetoric, over the past four years are far from Biden heads into his first full day ly divided nation, declaring it was lower the over. as president-elect on Sunday with time to “let this grim era of demoni- It also suggested that even as key staffing decisions to make as temperature, COREY DICKSTEIN/Stars and Stripes zation in America begin to end” and Biden seeks to build out a govern- the coronavirus rages. The always- reaching out to the millions of people see each ment during his transition to the frenzied 10-week transition period The National Museum of the who voted against him to say, “Let’s other again. ’ presidency, the president has little before Inauguration Day on Jan. 20 United States Army includes give each other a chance.” interest in helping him do so. already has been shortened by the some 70 cast figures of soldiers His calls for reconciliation at a Joe Biden “For all those of you who voted for in action, created from scans of Saturday evening victory celebra- President-elect President Trump, I understand the SEE UNITY ON PAGE 6 current active-duty soldiers. PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Monday, November 9, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES US recalls older Volvos after fatal air bag explosion Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9016 Euro costs (Nov. 9) ................................ $1.16 Thailand (Baht) .....................................30.63 Dollar buys (Nov. 9) ..............................€0.82 Turkey (Lira) .........................................8.5578 British pound (Nov. 9) ..........................$1.28 Associated Press (Military exchange rates are those said it is reviewing data with Volvo 2003 model years. 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Japanese parts maker Takata nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3066 tor killed the driver of an older purchasing British pounds in Germany), ZF/TRW spokesperson Tony used ammonium nitrate to cre- China (Yuan) ........................................6.6190 check with your local military banking Volvo, touching off a U.S. recall of Denmark (Krone) ................................6.2822 Sapienza said Saturday in an ate a small explosion to inflate air facility. Commercial rates are interbank up to 54,000 cars, regulators said Egypt (Pound) ....................................15.6901 email that he didn’t know wheth- bags in a crash. But the chemical Euro ........................................ $1.1859/0.8432 rates provided for reference when buying Saturday. er the same inflators were sold to can deteriorate over time when Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7537 currency. 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At least 26 people have been Poland (Zloty) ..........................................3.82 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7508 Federal funds market rate ...................0.09 The U.S. National Highway The recall covers Volvo S60 and killed worldwide by the inflators, Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3489 3-month bill ............................................. 0.10 Traffic Safety Administration S80 cars from the 2001 through including 17 in the United States. 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T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 14 Classified .................. 13 Comics ...................... 15 Crossword ................. 15 Faces ........................ 18 Opinion ..................... 16 Sports .................. 19-24 Monday, November 9, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY Marine officer escapes punishment for theft BY MATTHEW M. BURKE Estee Lauder ReNutriv Ultimate Diamond Lee remains on active duty and is sta- Kraics said lower enlisted Marines typi- Stars and Stripes energy cream between Nov. 1, 2019, and tioned at Marine Corps Forces Korea, cally receive harsher punishments than March 8, 2020, according to the report, spokesman Capt. Joseph Butterfield wrote the one rendered in the Lee case. A Marine lieutenant colonel found guilty which cited Marine in an email Thursday to Stars and Stripes. “An enlisted Marine at Special Court of stealing hundreds of dollars in merchan- officials with knowl- A legal scholar contacted by Stars and Martial, even under a pretrial agreement, dise from a base exchange in South Korea edge of the charges. Stripes said Lee escaping punishment is would likely receive a harsher punishment has escaped punishment, according to a A conviction for out of the ordinary. and fewer agreed-upon protections for this published report. theft at or under “It is unusual in my mind that a conven- level of larceny,” she said. Lt. Col. Samuel K. Lee, 47, was convicted $1,000 could bring ing authority would protect an officer from Decisions like the one in the Lee case Sept. 11 at Camp Foster, Okinawa, of two a bad conduct dis- punishment under these circumstances,” “absolutely” erode morale, Kraics said. counts of violating Article 121 of the Uni- charge, forfeiture of Crista Kraics, a retired Marine Corps “When senior officers