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Brian Martinez, 31, attaches a wreath made of family photos to his father's chair in the Field of Chairs at the Oklahoma City Memorial in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, the 22nd anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, which killed is father, Rev. Gilbert X. Martinez.Survivors and family members of those killed in the Oklahoma City bombing will gather for a remembrance service Wednesday, the 22nd anniversary of the attack. Carson is speaking at the 22nd Anniversary Remembrance Ceremony. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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In this April 11, 2017 photo, members of Haiti's new national military force exercise during training at a former U.N. base in Gressier, Haiti. Officials with President Jovenel Moise's government now say they are pushing to have 500 troops next year. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this April 11, 2017 photo, members of Haiti's new national military force march during training at a former U.N. base in Gressier, Haiti. While it's easy to find citizens who strongly support reconstituting a Haitian army, the idea alarms those who vividly remember times darkened by military coups and oppression. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this April 11, 2017 photo, a member of Haiti's new national military force greets a fellow soldier in a meeting room at a former U.N. base in Gressier, Haiti. Reviving a national army has been a goal of the Tet Kale party since it gained power in 2011. From his start as a candidate in 2010 elections, Michel Martelly pledged to restore the armed forces, pitching a force of 3,500 troops. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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FILE - In this Sept. 18, 1994 file photo, Haitian soldiers stand guard outside the military headquarters in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Attitudes about a possible military revival are as complicated as the history of Haiti, which only saw its first freely elected leader with Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1990, and he was ousted by a military coup just eight months later. (AP Photo/John McConnico/File)
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FILE- In this April 14, 1971 file photo, Jean-Claude Duvalier, son of Haitian dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, is flanked by military guards as he reviews the troops at the Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. when Jean-Claude Duvalier was ousted and fled to France in 1986, a repressive army high command of Duvalier appointees remained largely intact. (AP Photo/File)
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FILE - In this April 27, 1970 file photo, Tonton Macoutes march in downtown Port-au-Prince in support of Haiti's President Francois Duvalier. During the 29-year family dynasty founded by Duvalier, the army was largely shunted aside in favor of the Tonton Macoutes, the regime's dreaded private militia. (AP Photo/Toby Massey, File)
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FILE - This July 30, 1958 file photo shows Haiti's President Francois Duvalier in army uniform wearing a steel helmet and packing a pistol, a day after after leading his soldiers in repelling an attack on the palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. For much of Haiti's history, a parade of dictators like Duvalier used the army to crack down on political dissent and keep their grip on power. (AP Photo/File)
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In this April 11, 2017 photo, Lt. B. Jean Judney, a member of Haiti's new national military force points directions to his soldiers during training at a former U.N. base in Gressier, Haiti. While Haiti is a long way off from having a real military, efforts to build up a defense force at whatever level excites some and unnerves others. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this April 11, 2017 photo, members of Haiti's new national military force run and chant during training at a former U.N. base in Gressier, Haiti. As U.N. military peacekeepers prepare for a full exit from this Caribbean nation, Haiti is trying to revive a military force 22 years after a national army was disbanded. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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This March 12, 2017, photo shows a statue of a Confederate soldier on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss. Another statue on campus honors James Meredith, an African-American student whose enrollment in 1962 sparked riots. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz) ** FILE **
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FILE - In this July 31, 2006 file photo, Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, speaks during a meeting with a delegation of 160 officials and lawmakers from northern Uganda. Uganda's military says it has started pulling its forces from Central African Republic, where troops had been pursuing one of Africa's most notorious fugitives, Joseph Kony. (AP Photo, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2006 file photo, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army Joseph Kony answers journalists' questions following a meeting with UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland at Ri-Kwangba in southern Sudan. Uganda's military says it has started pulling its forces from Central African Republic, where troops had been pursuing one of Africa's most notorious fugitives, Joseph Kony. (AP Photo/Stuart Price, File,)
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Spanish riot police scuffles with Bayern fans during the Champions League quarterfinal second leg soccer match between Real Madrid and Bayern Munich at Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday April 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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Spanish riot police scuffles with Bayern fans during the Champions League quarterfinal second leg soccer match between Real Madrid and Bayern Munich at Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday April 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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Roman Kolodkin, head of the legal department of the Russian Foreign Affairs ministry, left, waits for the judges to enter the World Court to deliver the order on provisional measures in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in the case brought by the Ukraine against Russia accusing Moscow of financing separatist rebels and racially discriminating against ethnic Tartars and Ukrainians in the annexed Crimea peninsula. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, center, speaks to U.S. servicemen and Japanese Self-Defense Forces personnel on the flight deck of U.S. navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, at the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, Wednesday, April 19, 2017. Japan is drawing up emergency responses in case of a North Korea missile strike. A number of municipalities are testing community alarm systems and planning evacuation drills as concerns run high around U.S. military bases. Both Japan and South Korea are home to tens of thousands of U.S. troops. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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FILE - In this April 17, 2017, file photo, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence looks at the North side from Observation Post Ouellette in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, South Korea. U.S. strikes earlier this month against Syria, coupled with President Donald Trump's dispatching of what he called an “armada” of U.S. warships to the Korean region, touched off fears that the United States was preparing for military action, though it was revealed this week that the flotilla was taking a roundabout path to Korean waters and has yet to arrive. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)
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Maj. William Teper Jr., of the Pennsylvania State Police, speaks during a news conference Tuesday, April 18, 2017, at Troop E headquarters in Erie, Pa. Steve Stephens, the man who randomly gunned down a Cleveland retiree and posted video of the crime on Facebook killed himself Tuesday during a police chase in Pennsylvania. (Jack Hanrahan/Erie Times-News via AP)
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This 1993 photo provided by Rolando Navarro shows him as a student at the Agricultural National University of the Jungle of Tingo Maria, carrying samples for a project funded by the Peruvian Amazon Investigation Institute. Navarro was raised in the Amazon city of Tarapoto and got his renewable resource management degree in the early 1990s in the eastern Andean foothills at Tingo Maria, the cradle of the cocaine trade, during the country’s vicious conflict with fanatical Shining Path rebels. (Courtesy Rolando Navarro via AP)
