[Skybird]

There have been ceremonies in the US. And even foreign media mentioned them.

I think it is just an issue of individual taste and habit whether or not one sees the ammount of official rememberance done as sufficient according to one's own views, or not.

And doing these kind of things certainly can be exaggerated, even pathologic. there even is the risk one starts to see oneself as the biggest victim of all time, forgetting the rest of the world and it's history about it. There is even a risk of turning rememebrance into a hollow ritual that way, with it's true living meaning one day totally lost and forgotten. than the rite has become a life of it's own, shaping realities where it shouldn't.

you can imagine there are yearly ceremonies inGermany of things linked to the WWII, and the Nazi era. and honstely said: almost nobody pays much attention anymore - exactly because it has become a regular rite of routine.

Life goes on. Maybe some chose to have hard feelings about that. But I think instead that it is a reason to be happy. Life goes on - that does not mean not to draw consequences and learn from the past. It means one should not freeze in an attitude of always gazing back.

How would I do a rememberance day? Not on a special day at all, and by focussing on the special subjective meaning the event or time in question has for me, and me alone. Flag-waving and speeches - too easily becomes pathetic. Not my cup of tea.