Probably for the same reason that ladies anywhere in any religion wear bangles, cos they look good.
In ndu religion it is a tradition for married women to wear bangles. Green or red bangles are worn by married women and they symbolize safety and happy, prosperous and long married life. Breaking of bangles is believed to inauspicious.In some when husband dies, a woman breaks her bangles and this part of mourning.
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.