Michael Petrou, NF '18, on leading "In Their Own Voices," an oral history project about the post-war lives of Canadian veterans. Two summers ago, I sat down with Alex Polowin, one of a quickly dwindling number of Second World War veterans, and asked him how he felt when the war ended. “Sad,” he told me. Polowin, who has since died, served three years in the Royal Canadian Navy, including during the D-Day invasion of France.