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NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the displays of unity and diversity following the Sept. 11 attacks.

We turn to New York City, where services marking the moment that first airplane, American Airlines Flight 11, crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

We look to Pakistan, a country that has at times been aligned with the Taliban while also being a U.S. security partner. It has also felt the aftershocks of the U.S. response to the Sept. 11 attacks.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Alejandro Mayorkas Secretary for Homeland Security, about the state of the nation's security and the efficacy of resource allocation in the effort.

A Southern California community grapples with the legacy of being secretly surveilled by the FBI. Twenty years later, the matter is a legal fight that has reached the Supreme Court.

NPR's Scott Simon reads W.H. Auden's "September, 1, 1939," a poem that resonates with the smoke and destruction witnesses in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

We turn to the services at the Pentagon marking the moment where American Airlines flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.

Richard Guadagno died when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on 9/11. His memory is scattered through his sister Lori's house in items that continue a conversation between the siblings 20 years later.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Donna Angelini, whose firefighter husband, Joe, died saving others at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. This piece includes tape that could be disturbing to some.

Guest film critic Henry Sheehan reviews Nurse Betty. Actor Morgan Freeman. He's currently starring in the new film Nurse Betty. He's one of stage and screen's most acclaimed actors, for his ability to emerse himself in different roles. He's originated the role of the chauffeur in the Broadway production of Driving Miss Daisy. Later he revived the role in the movie version, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. Freeman's other movies include, Glory, Clean and Sober, Lean on Me, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and The Shawshank Redemption. Freeman made his directing debut with the film, Bopha, based on a South African play. (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 9