I think Lightfoot's song, which made the loss feel personal, has a lot to do with it. I've seen him perform it a couple of times, and there were people in the audience crying. The fact that we'll probably never know exactly what happened adds to the mystery of the tragedy, and the tragedy of the mystery as well.
There's a small museum dedicated to it, which I visited.
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.