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KEN FEINBERG

The attorney who was in charge of the September 11 Victim Compensation fund says never again will be value one life more than another. The 9/11 fund was set up so the families of victims who were making more money than other victims at the times of their deaths were paid more. That led to to some gut-wrenching moments for Feinberg, as he met with the families of the victims.

CULTURE WARS

Has a new culture war been launched in the campaign between John McCain and Barack Obama? We speak with Dr. Richard Land, long time president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.

9/11 EPIC POEM

Veteran CBS News producer Thomas Flynn was about to leave for work when the first plane hit the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. He took off on his bike with a pad and pen to cover the event, and after years of mulling over what he saw that day, he's written an epic poem, inspired by his re-reading of Dante's Inferno. We speak with Thomas Flynn.

This program aired on September 11, 2008.

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