Ah, the halcyon days of yesteryear. I remember them well... salad days indeed.
I've only been here for two and a half years. Other than a few unfortunate format changes (e.g. the departure of the green format), its character hasn't changed a whole lot. I wasn't around in the early days of R&S though.
(I was too caught up in the Myspace Religion & Philosophy forum at the time to come here, LOL.) Actually, now that I peer into the history of R&S back then courtesy of the Wayback Machine, not much has changed as far as the quality of questions go: (Jan. 3, 2006) http://web.archive.org/web/2006010319545... For more Wayback Machine captures, see: http://web.archive.org/web/2006060100000...
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.