Im in the exact same situation...i came across this post with in interesting comment further down although I couldn't quite get it to work.
I got the comment from that blog article working Paul, and modified it to use all the known MVC validation adapters instead of just the Required one (basically mimicking much of what's in the framework itself). It gets kind of hairy with how it displays the error message and working with what we already have, and I implemented a patch for MVC Contrib to work with it, but in the end I'm giving up for now until MVC3 is finialized and MVC Contrib builds against it. No point in going through all this when there's an updated release coming soon.
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.