Messages From the Sky
September 16, 2009The poem Messages from the Sky by: Fred Moramarco is about September eleventh and the people who died on that tragic day. Those people before they died called their family members and loved ones to tell them that they weren’t going to make it and they wanted to tell them that they loved them. In the poem the people’s quotes are basically the poem and they are all saying the same thing how they love their families and how they knew they were going to die. The poem made me think about a lot of things but, the one thing I was thinking about most was how that could have been me in New York city on September 11th 2001 but it wasn’t. My family and I could have moved out to New York but fortunately for us we didn’t. The poem made me feel sad when I thought about the people who lost their lives because they had families too and their families are probably still grieving. My favorite line from the poem was the line that said
“From the Towers, from the planes, Love, and again, love” because it’s basically saying how the people that were in the planes and the people that were in the towers somehow let their families know that they loved them.
When I first hear about the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon I was in my third grade classroom and the teacher put on the news just like we had did every morning and then that’s when we found out. When I first heard about it I felt really bad for those people’s family members who died. It affected my life because I am an American citizen and I take pride in my country and so It affected me a lot. Some other things that I remember about that day are there was a lot of crying, and praying.
If I were trapped on one of those planes during that time my first reaction would be to probably go lock myself in the bathroom and sit there so the hijackers wouldn’t see me so they wouldnt kill me. I would have called my grandma and told her that I love her and apologize for not always getting along with her. I would have told her that I love her.
