The local health department handles them, you do a 3 hours seminar, write an exams, and they present you with the card, in some cities and states it is renewable, and you have to register it every 2-3 years, here in Canada it is a lifetime card.
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.