It's sad that innocents were caught in the middle, but this is what happens when your government is a warmonger and doesn't care about lives at all. USA had been in the Middle east before 9/11 and already caused the deaths of numerous innocent men, women and children. Called them "collateral damage".
So this is what your innocents were too in the 'terrorist attack on America' (not its civilians).. "collateral damage" to the terrorists. Not nice when you get a taste of your own medicine, does it?
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.