Donald Trump is full of himself. It's not whether McCain was captured that made him a hero, it was that as ranking officer he did his best to keep up the spirits of his fellow POWs. He did his his job, as an officer, even though his own outcome was not certain he tried to maintain troop morale.
Trump doesn;t want to be president, he just wants some limelight, he is an egomaniac.
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.