Happy Memorial Day!

I was in Israel during their Memorial Day this year.
I was walking from the hotel to a cafe when the siren marking the start went off at 8:00pm.
The entire city of Jerusalem, the whole country actually, stopped. The cars stopped and people got out and stood, there were two buses that stopped, everyone got off and stood. People came out of their shops, it was unreal.
You could see in the faces of everyone (mostly) that there was a sincere sense of loss.
At 11:00am the next morning, there was another siren and again, everyone stopped.
At 8:00 pm that night, Memorial Day ended and Independence Day began. The whole country partied.
It was unreal, I've never seen anything like it since 9/11.