Find some ideas in my latest hub :)) hubpages.com/hub/ValentinesDay-Gifts.
I gave my girlfriend 3 flowers, 2 were real roses and 1 was a plastic rose and I told her I will love her untill the last flower dies.
One year I got my in-laws to watch the kids for a couple of days. We got in the car and just drove until we felt like stopping. Found some quiet little local spot to eat then pressed on.
Wound up in a small hotel room spending "quality time" together. Wink wink. And slept in the next day before meandering back home.It was simple, it was relatively cheap, and it was nice to just hang out with my best friend.
I'm boringly traditional, flowers, chocolates, champaigne and a meal at a restaurant kind of guy.
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.