RED LAKE, MINN. - One of the first things Rodney White did Tuesday morning was to visit his daughter, Alicia.

Or rather, he visited her grave.

"I just wanted to let her know that I was thinking about her today," he said. "Not a day goes by that I don't think about her. A part of me is gone and I can't get her back."

Alicia, 14, was one of 10 people who died March 21, 2005, on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. On Tuesday, the first anniversary of the second-deadliest school shooting in the nation, the mood was somber and subdued.

There was no official ceremony, but flags flew at half-staff, classes were canceled and tribal offices were closed. And across the northern Minnesota reservation of 6,000 people, loved ones held public memorials.

More than 70 people gathered to remember slain security guard Derrick Brun at St. Mary's Mission Catholic Church, which also had been the site of his funeral mass a year ago.

Many family members wore black T-shirts with gold lettering that said, "In Loving Memory of Derrick B. Brun, 9-28-76 to 3-21-05."

"Grant peace to Derrick," the Rev. Pat Sullivan prayed. "May he come to your presence and rejoice in your joy forever."

During the nearly two-hour service, 10 red candles burned on the altar, one for each of the dead.

Jeff Weise, the 16-year-old gunman, killed his grandfather and his grandfather's companion at their home before driving to the school, where he killed Brun, five students and English teacher Neva Rogers before taking his own life.

Brun and the other victims are missed very much, Brun's older sister, Victoria Brun, told attendees. She said that everyone is still coming to terms with the deaths.

"We had to accept it, and we are praying for those that were taken with him -- for the families that are in the same boat as we are," she said.

"None of that can be changed or done over," she said. "We have a responsibility to ourselves and to others that something like this doesn't happen again."

Up the road at the high school, dozens of people attended a luncheon to remember Neva Rogers.

Reporters were not allowed into the high school. Afterward, social studies teacher Sheila Horn said, "Everyone who came had the understanding that we don't need to cry or mourn, that we're here for each other and ... to honor Neva."

Horn said she was comforted to see so many current and former students. She said Rogers' daughter, Cindy Anderson, also appeared pleased with the outpouring of support.

Far to the south, Gov. Tim Pawlenty led a moment of silence at 2 p.m. in the State Capitol in St. Paul, and he urged people afterward to continue offering comfort to the people of Red Lake.

"It's a scar that's going to exist and a wound that's going to exist for a long time," Pawlenty said.