Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Department of Justice Emails Description An account of the resource The Department of Justice received more than 11,000 e-mails in response to the agency's public solicitation for comments upon its plans to distribute the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 established by Congress to benefit the victims of September 11 and their families. These e-mails have been organized here by date. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:23 PM fair compensation Special Master Kenneth R. Feinberg September 11th Victim Compensation Fund U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20530 Dear Mr. Feinberg: I was given your name and contact information by the Flash Activist Network, a special subscriber service of Working Assets, from whom I buy long-distance telephone service. They requested that I cc them to help track responses. As you go about the important task of overseeing the distribution of government funds to the survivors of those killed or injured in the September 11 attacks, please consider the following issues: - As the poorest families would stand to gain the least under traditional systems that award compensation in direct proportion to a victim's earnings level, setting a high minimum compensation level would help to reduce this imbalance and give poor families much-needed relief. - Doubtless many gay and lesbian couples and families were directly affected by this tragedy. Please do what you can to compensate for the fact that established gay and lesbian couples do not have the same access to marriage enjoyed by heterosexual couples. This clearly can have important ramifications for compensation where one partner has been killed or injured. Please give consideration to how legitimate, established gay and lesbian couples and the children they may be raising can be assured a fair share of the compensation. Thanks very much for considering to my comments. I wish you the best in the execution of your duties. Sincerely, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-13 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource dojA001669.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2001-12-13