If you want to buy one yourself you will need to be old enough to pay for it, have insurance, and buy the gas. That puts you at least 18. If you are lucky and have a parent who will pay for all of that AFTER you get a license then you could have one sooner.
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.