I don't know how you even compare the two events. Pearl Harbour was a devastating attack on our country and brought the USA into WWII. The attack was a watershed event in the history of the world. Imagine the Japanese failed or our carriers were in the harbour that morning. The war, our country and the world could have been far different.

John Lennon's death was the death of a celebrity and nothing more. Sure his music may have been inspired, even genius, but beyond that his death had little effect on our world and history, beyond his families personal tragedy. If anything the world is better without his extreme views on society.

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No **** below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...

Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

Please! He would have been happy residing in his homophonic buddy's (Lenin) Soviet Union. Lennon and his kind would gladly deny you most of your rights as citizens of the United States of America (property ownership, freedom of religion, right to bear arms, free speech, etc, etc, etc), not to mention your inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, in the name of peace, love and communism.

The mass media may have forgotten Pearl Harbor, D-Day, WWII, etc. but I don't think most Americans have or ever will.