Now I understand where you are coming from. The only history that is relevant to you is what happened to you during your lifetime. You don't understand or care why the Kennedy assasination was a defining event for our country or why most Americans alive at the time remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when Kennedy was killed. Something akin to 9/11 for you.
Of course I respect that. Your generation laments "what might have been." The trouble is that it wasn't. By liberal accounts, JFK Jr. might have been a great president. Should we look forward to anniversary specials on his passing too? Should we elect Bo Jackson to the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Ah, yes, I was waiting for someone to trot out that old meaningless cliche. Hey, I remember where I was and what I was doing when my father died, and when my son was born, and when other significant events happened in my life. I remember where I was and what I was doing when George W. Bush was elected president. I remember where I was and what I was doing the moment I heard Bill Clinton say, "It depends on what the meaning of the word IS, is." That's the way normal human memory works: We more easily remember things that are significant to us, and quickly forget the mundane. Nothing special or magical or Arthurian (as in Camelot) about it.