WHY are all of our "Days of Rememberance" always focused on BAD events?

[southerncrone]

Can we not get enough bad news w/o dredging up past bad news & keeping it alive?
Do we not feel BAD enough what w/economy, health care, wars, etc.
I don't understand it. (Or maybe I DO understand it, & just don't like it.)

Just some food for thought.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. Because: Nothing bad happened. LET'S PARTY!

simply does not have the same impact.

[dsc]

2. because we call the good things we remember holidays

think fourth of july, christmas, thanksgiving, etc.

[Faygo Kid]

3. February 1964: Beatles land at JFK Airport.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And did we ever need it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8O7SCDeBT8&feature=related

[frebrd]

4. Because this country loves to wallow. eom

[stray cat]

6. Those who ignore and don't learn from history are likely to repeat it

[Codeine]

11. Good grief. We're hardly unique in commemorating tragedies.

People have always done that.

[stray cat]

5. Most of our holidays are good days - remembrance implies something solemn and reverential

something some progressives dislike if Americans are victims but would be in favor of if Americans were remembering their killing of Iraqis or non-americans

[mitchum]

7. Because this is the land of the free and home of the lurid

[woo me with science]

8. What remembrance days would you like to see? nt

[Synicus Maximus]

9. Bad days like Memorial Day (end of WWI), 4 of July, and Christmas

All of which I think were pretty good days

[Recovered Repug]

12. WWI ended on November 11.

Originally called Armistice Day, it's now called Veteran's Day.

[dembotoz]

10. today is my fathers and grandmothers birthday

both more of interest to me than other events that happened today

[blondeatlast]

13. My birthday is May 16. Thanks for caring! nt

[treestar]

14. Our Puritanical Heritage

We seem to think we deserve bad things and so wallow in them.

We can't do much about a good thing.

The idea of making 9/11 a holiday creeps me out.

And how many people are really happy on July 4?

And celebrate 9/17, Constitution Day?

We can't, because it's positive and we don't deserve good.

[LWolf]

15. This isn't actually a day of remembrance for me.

9/11 was not a transformative event in my life. While I grieved for the victims and their families, I was, and am, offended by the political use the event was, and still is, put to. When I remember "9/11," I remember a nation that allowed fear and anger to set it on a path of destruction that is not yet done, and I am ashamed and disgusted.

[Warren DeMontague]

16. I think July 20th should be a holiday for all humanity, personally.

But that's just me.

[blondeatlast]

18. We celebrate Columbus Day--definitely! nt

[Raine]

17. If it wasn't that way

and we celebrated national good days it would be because the bad out numbered the good so much that good was a rarity. :yoiks: :think:

[uncommon]

19. Because it is important to remember the events in history that we don't want repeated.