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Several ceremonies are scheduled on Sunday to commemorate the 77th anniversary of D-Day that led to the liberation of France and Europe from the German occupation.

Pandemic travel restrictions have prevented veterans or their families from attending this year’s D-Day commemorations. French residents and officials are taking part on their own.

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey is among the politicians sponsoring the legislation. It authorizes the president to award the medal to Waverly B. Woodson Jr., a Black army medic who saved dozens of wounded troops on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.