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Host Scott Simon and NPR's Mike Pesca discuss the US Open tennis tournament and the opening weekend of the 2011 NFL season.

The Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002 with the idea of unifying homeland security efforts. But after all this time, have those efforts made us safer?

Lauren Manning was one of the few employees of her firm to survive the attacks on the World Trade Center, but suffered massive burn injuries. She credits her will to survive to the memory of her colleagues. "I took absolute personal responsibility that they wouldn't get another one," she says.

One of those killed was a 3-year-old girl. The Taliban claimed responsibility.

Around the nation today, the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was marked with prayers, solemn ceremonies, vows to remember the nearly 3,000 victims and pledges to never let terrorists fundamentally change the American way of life.

Saadi Gadhafi was intercepted by local troops after he entered the country through Libya's southern desert border as part of a convoy, officials said. The International Criminal Court has not issued a warrant for Saadi's arrest.

Did President Lincoln write the "Bixby letter?" Was the mother he was consoling a secret Southern sympathizer? And it appears she did not lose five sons in the Civil War. But its language remains widely admired.

Solemn scenes from the Sept. 11 memorials in New York, Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon.

Aaron Brown wasn't supposed to be on the air at CNN for another few weeks. But on Sept. 11, 2001, he found himself reporting from a roof for 17 hours. Brown became a calm voice that day, as he guided millions through a national tragedy as it unfolded just 30 blocks away.

Kate Bralauer, 11, has never seen the Manhattan skyline with twin towers. But 9/11 matters to her.