The Moon does not have soil. Soil has organic components. The Moon has regolith, and a LOT of dust.
Since BOTH the soviets and the Americans had either crash landed or landed UNMANNED vehicles on the Moon BEFORE Apollo 11,. Scientists AND engineers knew the moon was made of rick and was not covered in dust to several feet years or meters so things would not sink into it. THAT is how scientists knew flag piles could be hammered into the regolith and rocks so they would stand up.
That is WHY 5 of the 6 apollo flags are SILL standing. . The Apollo 11 flag 11 got blown over be the exhaust from the LEM models rockets when they took off.
, but that flag is still there. The Moon IS made out of rock, DIFFERENT KINDS of rocks.
They didn't 'know' they would be able to hammer it into the Lunar regolith, but from what they thought they knew about the moon they figured it was pretty likely they could. If the Lunar regolith was too hard, there were a lot of experiments that would have had to be re-though or abandoned.
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.