Alabama's WWII vets

Tomorrow marks 82 years since Americans stormed the Normandy beaches.

The big picture: Numbers of living World War II veterans are rapidly shrinking, down to 45,418 as of 2025, per the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs via the National World War II Museum.

• That's fewer than 0.5% of the total 16.4 million Americans who served during World War II, per the museum.

Zoom in: Of those, 394 lived in Alabama in 2025.

The latest: The National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia, will hold a ceremony honoring the 82nd anniversary of D-Day and its own 25th anniversary this year with a full day of events tomorrow.

• Watch the ceremony at 10am Central Time via live stream here, or catch it on C-Span.