A few more years and there won’t be many Second World War veterans left at all. Veterans Affairs released a report earlier in the year that estimated there were approximately 48,000 surviving veterans of the Second World War and the Korean War. A few more years and there won't be many Second World War veterans left at allHow many D-Day veterans are among them? Wilson-Smith noted that there may be as few as 300-400 Canadian D-Day veterans left alive. It’s only going to get harder to honour the sacrifice of our Second World War veterans when the last of them are gone.

Source: National Post June 06, 2019 10:01 UTC