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This May 18, 2017, photo shows World War II veteran Leonard Larkins at his home in New Orleans. Larkins and nearly 4,000 other segregated black soldiers helped build a highway across Alaska and Canada during World War II, a contribution largely ignored for decades but drawing attention as the 75th anniversary approaches. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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This May 18, 2017, photo shows World War II veteran Leonard Larkins holding his World War II hat at his home in New Orleans. Larkins and nearly 4,000 other segregated black soldiers helped build a highway across Alaska and Canada during World War II, a contribution largely ignored for decades but drawing attention as the 75th anniversary approaches. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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This May 18, 2017, photo shows World War II veteran Leonard Larkins at his home in New Orleans.Larkins and nearly 4,000 other segregated black soldiers helped build a highway across Alaska and Canada during World War II, a contribution largely ignored for decades but drawing attention as the 75th anniversary approaches. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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In this 1942 photo provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office of History, soldiers work at a makeshift bench while working on the Alaska Highway, in the Northern Sector of Alaska. Nearly 4,000 segregated black soldiers helped build the highway across Alaska and Canada during World War II, a contribution largely ignored for decades but drawing attention as the 75th anniversary approaches. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office of History via AP)
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In this 1942 photo provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office of History, a soldier places dynamite during construction of the Alaska Highway in the Northern Sector of Alaska. Nearly 4,000 segregated black soldiers helped build the highway across Alaska and Canada during World War II, a contribution largely ignored for decades but drawing attention as the 75th anniversary approaches. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office of History via AP)
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In this 1942 photo provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office of History, soldiers try to free a bulldozer stuck in mud during construction of the Alaska Highway, in the Northern Sector of Alaska. Nearly 4,000 segregated black soldiers helped build the highway across Alaska and Canada during World War II, a contribution largely ignored for decades but drawing attention as the 75th anniversary approaches. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office of History via AP)
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In this 1942 photo provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office of History, an African-American soldier leans over to peer through surveyor's transit during construction of the Alaska Highway in the Northern Sector of Alaska. Nearly 4,000 segregated black soldiers helped build the highway across Alaska and Canada during World War II, a contribution largely ignored for decades but drawing attention as the 75th anniversary approaches. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office of History via AP)
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This undated photo provided by Bert Larkins shows Leonard Larkins as a young soldier. Larkins and nearly 4,000 other segregated black soldiers helped build a highway across Alaska and Canada during World War II, a contribution largely ignored for decades but drawing attention as the 75th anniversary approaches (Bert Larkins via AP)
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This June 5, 2017, photo shows World War II veteran Leonard Larkins at an event in Anchorage, Alaska, celebrating the 75th anniversary of construction of the Alaska Highway while someone holds an iconic photo of a black and white soldier shaking hands when the two sides building the road met in 1942. Larkins, of New Orleans, was among scores of segregated black soldiers who toiled in North America's harshest weather and terrain to help build a 1,500-mile highway across Alaska and Canada as a supply route during World War II. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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President Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made statements in the Rose Garden of the White House Monday, in which the two leaders renewed vows to fight Islamic extremism and increase military cooperation. "We are both determined to destroy terrorist organizations and the radical ideology that drives them," Mr. Trump said. (Associated Press)
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A rebel of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, stands guard at the Mariana Paez demobilization zone, one of many rural camps where rebel fighters are making their transition to civilian life, in Buenavista, in the municipality of Mesetas, Colombia, Monday, June 26, 2017. On Tuesday, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC’s top commander Timochenko will meet here to commemorate the completion of the disarmament process. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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A cowboy herds his cattle near Buenavista in the municipality of Mesetas, Colombia, Monday, June 26, 2017. On Tuesday, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC’s top commander Timochenko will meet in this area, at one of many rural camps where rebel fighters are making their transition to civilian life, to commemorate the completion of FARC disarmament process. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Army soldiers arrive to guard the Mariana Paez demobilization zone, one of many rural camps where FARC rebel fighters are making their transition to civilian life, one day ahead of an event with President Juan Manuel Santos in Buenavista, Colombia, Monday, June 26, 2017. On Tuesday, Colombia's president will meet the FARC’s top commander Timochenko at this camp to commemorate the completion of the disarmament process. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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A rooster stands under a sign that reads in Spanish; "Reception area" at entrance of the Mariana Paez demobilization zone, one of many rural camps where the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, are making their transition to civilian life, in Buenavista, in the municipality of Mesetas, Colombia, Monday, June 26, 2017. On Tuesday, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC’s top commander Timochenko will meet here to commemorate the completion of the disarmament process. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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A rebel of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, stands guard at the Mariana Paez demobilization zone, one of many rural camps where rebel fighters are making their transition to civilian life, in Buenavista, Colombia, Monday, June 26, 2017. On Tuesday, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC’s top commander Timochenko will meet here to commemorate the completion of the disarmament process. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, build a stage for the next day's ceremony that will commemorate the completion of the rebels' disarmament process, at the Mariana Paez demobilization zone, one of many rural camps where rebel fighters are making their transition to civilian life, in Buenavista, Colombia, Monday, June 26, 2017. The United Nations say that leftist rebels in Colombia have turned over almost all of their fighters’ individual weapons as part of a historic peace deal reached with the government last year. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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"All we do is win, win, win," President Trump said last week after special elections in Georgia and South Carolina. (Associated Press/File)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND OF JULY 1, 2017- This June 19, 2017 photo shows the Armed Forces Heritage Museum is a mobile exhibit. It can be seen next month at the Burlington County Farm Fair. (Carol Comegno/Camden Courier-Post via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND OF JULY 1, 2017-This photo taken June 19, 2017, shows Armed Forces Heritage Museum President Robert von Bargen speaking about the mission of its new mobile museum to tell the story of New Jersey military history. (Carol Comegno/Camden Courier-Post via AP)
