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In this photo taken on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 and made available Wednesday, April 5, Turkish experts evacuate a victim of alleged chemical weapons attacks in Syrian city of Idlib, at a local hospital in Reyhanli, Hatay, Turkey. A suspected chemical attack in a town in Syria's rebel-held northern Idlib province killed dozens of people on Tuesday, opposition activists said, describing the attack as among the worst in the country's six-year civil war. (DHA-Depo Photos via AP)
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FILE - In this May 26, 2014 file photo, visitors look at memorial bricks after a Memorial Day observance at the National World War Museum at Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Mo. Foreign dignitaries from around the globe are converging on Kansas City, Missouri, and its towering World War I monument to observe the centennial of the day the U.S. entered "The Great War." A sellout gathering of 3,000 onlookers also have snapped up tickets for the daylong observance Thursday, April 6, 2017, titled "In Sacrifice for Liberty and Peace." (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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FILE - In this June 18, 2013 file photo, garbed in a classically styled trench coat, actor Jamie Campbell Bower arrives at a Burberry fashion show in London. Burberry supplied British officers serving in the trenches of World War I with khaki-colored, waterproof trench coats. Now, as Thursday, April 6, 2017, marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I, many of the technology innovations developed during the conflict, including the trench coat, are still with us. (Photo by Jonathan Short/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE - In this undated file photo, German Red Cross workers carry bottles of liquid to help revive those who have succumbed to a gas attack during World War I. Poison gas was introduced into modern warfare during World War I and remains a threat for both civilian and military populations to this day. Thursday, April 6, 2017, marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I, and some of the innovations that were developed or came into wide use during the conflict are still with us today, from machine guns and tanks to trench coats and wristwatches. (AP Photo, File)
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FILE - In this undated file photo, a British tank uproots a large tree before the advance of the tank battle at Cambria during World War I. The tank saw its introduction in the first World War and modern armies continue to use variants of this armored fighting vehicle. Thursday, April 6, 2017, marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I, and some of the innovations that were developed or came into wide use during the conflict are still with us today, from machine guns and tanks to trench coats and wristwatches. (AP Photo, File)
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FILE - In this April 1919 file photo, two female members of the U.S. Navy's Yeoman unit pose in their chin strap hats, tie, jacket and long skirt in New York City during World War I. World War I was the first time in the nation's history that women were officially attached to branches of the U.S. military and more than 30,000 women served in uniform, mostly as nurses or switchboard operators. Thursday, April 6, 2017, marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I, and some of the innovations that were developed or came into wide use during the conflict are still with us today. (U.S. Navy via AP)
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FILE - In this July 6, 2014 file photo, Christopher Bulko pilots a Spad VII reproduction bi-plane during an air show at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in Rhinebeck, N.Y. Fighter aircraft such as the Spad VII were used for the first time during World War I. Thursday, April 6, 2017, marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I, and some of the innovations that were developed or came into wide use during the conflict are still with us today. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)
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In this April 4, 2017 photo, Courtney Burns, director of the New York State Military Museum holds a German 1918 Maxim MG-08 light machine gun at the museum in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The use of such weaponry and other technology advances resulted in the trench warfare that became the norm for all sides fighting in World War I, which the U.S. entered on April 6, 1917. Much of today's military arsenal such as tanks and chemical weapons were developed a century ago. (AP Photo/Chris Carola)
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FILE- In this Sept 15, 2016 file photo, a replica World War 1 Mk IV is displayed in Trafalgar Square in London to mark the 100th anniversary of the first use of the tank in battle during the Battle of the Somme. On Sept. 15, 1916 the British Army sent tanks into battle for the first time and introduced the armored fighting vehicle into modern warfare. Thursday, April 6, 2017, marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I, and many of the technology innovations developed during the conflict are still with us today, from machine guns and tanks to trench coats and wristwatches. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland, File)
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In this April 1917 file photo, World War I Army recruits who answered the call to enlist fill a street in New York City shortly after President Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany. Thursday, April 6, 2017, marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I, and some of the innovations that were developed or came into wide use during the conflict are still with us today, including the iconic image of Uncle Sam on recruiting posters pointing, with the message "I WANT YOU for the U.S. ARMY." (AP Photo, File )
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This undated file photo shows the classic World War I recruiting poster created by illustrator James Montgomery Flagg. Thursday, April 6, 2017, marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I, and some of the innovations that were developed or came into wide use during the conflict are still with us today, including this iconic image of Uncle Sam pointing, with the message "I WANT YOU for the U.S. ARMY." (AP Photo, File)
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Air Force Gen. John E. Hyten, commander of the Strategic Command, warns that terrorist drones pose a threat to U.S. nuclear facilities. (Associated Press)
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People gather at Trocadero plaza as the lights of the Eiffel tower falls dark at midnight in Paris, France, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo says the Eiffel Tower will fall dark overnight to honor the victims of the St. Petersburg subway bombing. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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People hold candles during a religious service for victims of a subway explosion in a cathedral in St.Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Investigators searched for possible accomplices of a 22-year-old native of the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan identified as the suicide bomber in the St. Petersburg subway, as residents came to grips with the first major terrorist attack in Russia's second-largest city since the Soviet collapse. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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A woman lights a candle during a religious service for victims of a subway explosion, in a cathedral in St.Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Investigators searched for possible accomplices of a 22-year-old native of the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan identified as the suicide bomber in the St. Petersburg subway, as residents came to grips with the first major terrorist attack in Russia's second-largest city since the Soviet collapse. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with heads of the security services from the Commonwealth of Independent States, a grouping of most former Soviet republics in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Putin told security officials from a regional alliance that this week's subway bombing in St. Petersburg underlines that terrorism's threat is not subsiding. (Alexei Nikolsky/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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People light candles during a religious service for victims of a subway explosion in a cathedral, in St.Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Investigators searched for possible accomplices of a 22-year-old native of the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan identified as the suicide bomber in the St. Petersburg subway, as residents came to grips with the first major terrorist attack in Russia's second-largest city since the Soviet collapse. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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People lay flowers at a symbolic memorial at Technologicheskiy Institute subway station in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Investigators searched for possible accomplices of a 22-year-old native of the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan identified as the suicide bomber in the St. Petersburg subway, as residents came to grips with the first major terrorist attack in Russia's second-largest city since the Soviet collapse. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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People leave a train passing a symbolic memorial at Technologicheskiy Institute subway station in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Investigators searched for possible accomplices of a 22-year-old native of the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan identified as the suicide bomber in the St. Petersburg subway, as residents came to grips with the first major terrorist attack in Russia's second-largest city since the Soviet collapse. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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People lay flowers at a symbolic memorial at Technologicheskiy Institute subway station in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Investigators searched for possible accomplices of a 22-year-old native of the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan identified as the suicide bomber in the St. Petersburg subway, as residents came to grips with the first major terrorist attack in Russia's second-largest city since the Soviet collapse. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
