I don't know and I don't particularly care. There was nothing "Patriotic" about being forced to serve in the U.S. Military during an action that couldn't even remotely be classified as National Defense. The only people who buy off on the notion that serving in the military is "Patriotic" when your Nation is being immoral as hell are your f-ing idiots.
He wrote a letter to the recruiter saying that he "loathes the American military". Then he became a Rhodes scholar and fled to England where he never went to class but also "never inhaled" when he was smoking pot. He took a side trip to Moscow but to this day has refused to say who he met with or what he did there.
After being accused of raping an English co-ed , he returned to the U.S. By that time the draft was over.
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.