In our culture & traditions, we used to always remember only good incidents and not sad and bad tragedies. For eg., 'Krishnashtami' (Lord Krishna's Birthday), 'Sree Rama Navami' (Lord Rama's B'day) which I celebrate very well since my childhood. The reason is pretty obvious - all my favorite dishes (Sweet Kheer & Vada) will be made at home and we listen a lot of interesting, valorous & moral stories of Rama and Krishna. Almost, all our festivals are either b'days or on the days various demons got killed. Many of us still don't know when Rama, Krishna ended their avatars. This tells us that we never used to remember such incidents.
But in Contrast, recent customs of labeling trajedies like American Twin towers Attack(9/11) and Typhoons as (Rita, Katrina) makes us not to forget through out our lives. And sometimes, revenge may also spring in some people. So, lets just learn the lessons from the incidents and forget. Its like this - I always celebrated Nehru's birthday as Children's Day with a lot of fun, but never cared to know when he had passed away.
"Forgiveness & Foregetfulness leads us to Peace"
