“Messages om the Sky” by Fred Moramarco
Response to Literature

“Messages from the Sky,”  describes some of the thousands feelings that the tragedy on September 11, 2001 brought to our hearts. While reading this poem, I was imagining all those people who were in the towers or near them when the planes crashed into the towers. I felt very sad when the author quotes a little girl, “Mommy, the building is on fire, there’s smoke coming through the walls, I can’t breathe. I love you Mommy, goodbye.” I think that the girl’s mom was one of the most affected people in this tragedy, or a least the most affected out of the people that were mentioned in the poem “Messages from the Sky” by Fred Moramarco. I think she was the most affected person because hearing her daughter on the phone and knowing that she is about to die and cant do anything about, must be a desperate position to be in, a position I would never like to be in.
To me, this was nothing when it barely happened. I was only 7 years old and I didn’t even lived in this country. I did heard something about some planes crashing into some towers, but I did not know what they were talking about. This tragedy affected me three years later when I first tried to come to the United States. My family and I tried to get our permissions to come to the U.S.A. But it was very hard because it wasn’t easy to get permissions because they thought we might be terrorists. It may sound ridiculous but that’s the way it was, and that’s the it affected me.
I’m sure all of those people in the planes would’ve been more than happy to be in my place at the moment. Unfortunately, they weren’t, and luckily I wasn’t in their place either. If I had been in that position of knowing I was about to died, I would have called my family but not to tell them about what was happening because that would hurt them and it hurt me too. Instead, I would’ve told them how much I loved them and how much they meant to me.