I never felt particularly underpaid in the Army. Considering meals, housing, clothing, etc is all provided basically every dime you make is spending money. Even if you're married they pay you a meal allowance and either give you a house or pay you a housing allowance.
If deployed you get things like separation allowances and pay no taxes..... Unless you're one of those idiots who runs out and marries the first 300 pound dependopotamus with 3 kids you can find in a trailer park off base or blows all your money on CDs or strippers, it's not bad. Especially considering you can do it as a 17 year old kid with just a high school diploma and no experience doing anything but beating off.
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.