Today's post doubles as both the next part of the DT countdown, and my own tribute to the memory of 9/11.

I was at school (college) when we heard rumors of a plane hitting the World Trade Center, and I assumed at first they just meant like a small commuter plane that had gone off course or something. But as the class hour went by, we learned the full details. One classmate was very upset because she had friends in New York on that day. I spent a long time talking to her, and then went home (class had basically been called off). I remember that night as the news programs endlessly repeated the videos of the towers collapsing, the magnitude of what happened finally hit me and I felt so ill I could not keep my dinner down.

Today's Dream Theater song is "Sacrificed Sons" a song all about 9/11. This version comes from Score, the DVD of the final performance of their 20th Anniversary Tour at Radio City Music Hall.