Are we a morbid country?

After watching for about 10 minutes of the JFK Memorial service this past week, my husband said.....we must be the most morbid people.  And then asked.. do other countries rehash over and over these types of things?

I couldn't give him an answer, as I have not seen anything on the news about a yearly or 10 year services for a past tragedy.   I am not saying there isn't any.. just we, in the States, don't see it. Where as it seems a lot of ours is shown overseas. 

We have September 11th World Trade Center.  We have in November 22nd, JFK death and in December 7th we have the Pearl Harbor and then on January 16th we have the Martin Luther King Day.  With a parade and services. 

But then I got to thinking.. we have been morbid for a long time.. almost the beginning of time.. as we mourn the death of a man for 2013 years. Which kind of confuses kids...  They celebrate the great birth of Jesus in December... Christmas... kids really get wound up in that... but then

just a mere 3 months later.. they celebrate Easter with Easter eggs and candy... as they mourn the passing of Jesus.  I even had a kid ask me years ago...."didn't we just celebrate him being born? did he die as a baby?"

So my dear readers... who know about the many different countries.. is there a country that goes to the extent of having a day and moment of silence for

some one who was killed? Or an attack.. to the point we do.. Ringing the bell, calling out the names? And played over and over on television?

The King says we shouldn't forget, but do we

really need to wallow in the sadness? How do the families of the WTC deaths, get on with their lives we keep it an open sore each year?  We all have lost dear ones in our lives.. and we remember them on that day..

But we don't make a big deal of it.. like the Americans do.... so... is he right?