Photos: Attack foiled on high-speed train heading to Paris

French President Francois Hollande, from left, National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, from Roseburg, Ore., U.S. Ambassador to France Jane Hartley, Air Force paramedic Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler, a senior at California State University at Sacramento, pose at the Elysee Palace in Paris after being awarded the French Legion of Honor by Hollande on Aug. 24, 2015.

Legion of Honor medals for the three Americans and a British businessman on display at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Aug. 24, 2015.

Anthony Sadler, from left, Spencer Stone, Jane Hartley, U.S. ambassador to France, and Alek Skarlatos at a news conference Aug. 23, 2015, at the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Paris. The men talked about subduing a gunman on a train in France.

U.S. airman Spencer Stone answers questions during a news conference Aug. 23, 2015, at the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Paris. Stone and two friends, Antony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos, helped foil a potentially deadly attack when they subdued a man armed with an assault rifle and other weapons on board a high-speed train bound for Paris.

U.S. Ambassador to France Jane Hartley, from left, U.S. airman Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos attend a news conference Aug. 23, 2015, at the U.S. Embassy in Paris two days after 25-year-old Moroccan Ayoub El-Khazzani is accused of opening fire on a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris.

U.S. service member Alek Skarlatos answers questions during a news conference Aug. 23, 2015, at the U.S. Embassy in Paris.

U.S. service member Spencer Stone answers questions during a news conference Aug. 23, 2015, at the U.S. embassy in Paris.

U.S. student Anthony Sadler answers questions during a news conference Aug. 23, 2015, at the U.S. embassy in Paris.

U.S. service member Spencer Stone, from left, U.S. student Anthony Sadler and U.S. service member Alek Skarlatos attend a news conference Aug. 23, 2015, at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. The three men stopped a Moroccan citizen who opened fire on a high-speed train traveling to Paris.

U.S. service member Alek Skarlatos answers questions during a news conference Aug. 23, 2015, at the U.S. Embassy in Paris.

U.S. service member Spencer Stone gives his version of what happened on the train during a news conference Aug. 23, 2015, at the U.S. Embassy in Paris.

U.S. airman Spencer Stone, left, Anthony Sadler, a senior at California State University at Sacramento, and U.S. National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos attend a news conference Aug. 23, 2015, at the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Paris.

Spencer Stone, a U.S. Air Force serviceman who was stabbed while helping subdue a gunman on a train passing through Belgium, leaves a hospital Aug. 22, 2015, in northern France.

Police officers investigate on the crime scene inside a Thalys train of French national railway operator SNCF at the main train station in Arras, northern France on Aug. 21, 2015.

Spencer Stone waves as he leaves the police station in Arras, northern France, on Aug. 22, 2015. Stone, a U.S. Air Force serviceman, was one of four passengers credited with subduing a gunman who attempted to launch an attack on a high-speed train traveling through Belgium.

Alek Skarlatos, a National Guardsman from Oregon, looks out the window of the police station in Arras, northern France, on Aug. 22, 2015. Skarlotos was one of three Americans credited with helping subdue a gunman aboard a train traveling through Belgium. A British national also aided with overpowering the attacker.

French soldiers patrol at Gare du Nord train station in Paris on Aug. 22, 2015. A gunman armed with an assault rifle, among other weapons, attempted to launch an attack on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris on Aug. 21 but was subdued by four passengers.

Police officers patrol the Thalys train station platforms Aug. 22, 2015, at Brussels Midi Station in Brussels. Security was beefed up at the train station after a gunman attempted to launch an attack Aug. 21 on a train traveling through Belgium.

Criminal and forensic investigators in protective suits stand on a platform next to a train on Aug. 21, 2015. A gunman tried to launch an attack on a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris but was subdued by passengers, including three Americans. Three people were wounded before the gunman was overpowered.

A police officer walks on a platform next to a train at the main train station in Arras, northern France, on Aug. 21, 2015.

Security agents stand next to the trains at the main train station in Arras, northern France, on Aug. 21, 2015.

A train of French national railway operator SNCF stands at the main train station in Arras, northern France, on Aug. 21, 2015.