Don't know about benning but at Jackson we had laundry rooms we could wash our clothes, usually on Sunday and on nights your platoon has CQ duty. We got our laundry room privilege taken away so we used a laundry service contractor instead.
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.