"This day has gone by so completely normal. It's been easy for me to forget," said Kyungmim Kang, 20, a Spanish major. "It's a normal day -- we'd like to think. But instead of dwelling on the World Trade Center or Pennsylvania (where one of the hijacked planes crashed), it's time to rebuild."

The names of 30 Michigan alumni killed in the attacks were read and a white rose was placed on each of 30 empty chairs. One by one, members of the crowd lit candles that vigil organizers had passed out.

After a moment of silence that lasted several minutes, the sound of "Taps" played by a lone bugler drifted across the Diag at the center of campus.

"I thought it was great," said Rebecca Freilich, 21, an art major from Westchester, N.Y. "I'm from New York. I started crying.

"I don't think it'll ever be easier."

Michael Dagher-Margosian, 15, of Ann Arbor came to commemorate an aunt killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center.

"It was tough. Of course it's hard thinking about it, but it's good seeing all of these people coming out," he said. "You never can really forget what happened. I think it was a good closure."

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- It was perhaps a rhetorical question. But the answers, especially on this day, were sincere.

"How many of you want to go to heaven?" Imam Hassan Qazwini asked the more than 100 students ranging in age from 5 to 10 after the midday prayer Thursday at Dearborn's Muslim American Youth Academy.

All hands shot up. "Inshallah (God Willing) after a hundred years. But remember, the condition is that you always be truthful, humble, respectful, pray and don't fight," said Qazwini, the religious leader at the Islamic Institute of America.

"Al-Shaitan (Satan) is the one that tells us to fight. He turns friends against each other. But as Muslims, we have to resist him."

The message in his weekly talk at the Islamic elementary school reinforced the one school officials were promoting all day. First was the morning assembly where a moment of silence honoring those who died in the Sept. 11 attacks was followed by a short talk on how Islam stresses peace. Then, there were discussions in class. Finally, the short sermon after the noon prayer, one of five required daily of Muslims.

In the fourth grade class, Sister Fatin, as she is known to her students, "talked to us about the two towers that fell," said 8-year-old Mary Turfah.

"She said real Muslims don't do things like that. That's not our way or our religion," she said. "But some people, who pretend to be Muslims, might."