Do I apply for NROTC on the first day of college?

Go see your doctor. Find out FOR SURE and then ask him your prognosis. It may be fully healed by 8 months from now (and yes, you would want to mention it because you will be asked if there have been any changes when you go to the MEPS).

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.