Apply at the Dept of Transitional Assistance in your area. Medical help- you should be getting medicare or some free one if you're disabled. Christmas presents- there are programs like at food banks where you can sign up for a gift voucher,,may be too late by now but look into your local food bank, you'll need a leter from a social worker- or therapist, anyone..to go to food bank hope this helps.
Also see my hub.
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.