[steve86]

Last I saw the statistic, over 2,400 men from WWII were dying every day

Are you sure -- almost 900,000/year?

[Lx]

That came from my father and was a couple of years ago and since he's no longer with us, I checked it and for 2012-2013 it's around 600 a day.

Still 219,000 a year.

Q: How many World War II veterans are alive today?

A: According to statistics released by the Veteran’s Administration, our World War II vets are dying at a rate of just over 600 a day. This means there are approximately only 1.2 million veterans remaining of the 16 million who served our nation in World War II.

WWII Museum

Almost a million a year seems way out there as there were only 16.1 million total; maybe I remember it wrong.