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, February 07, 2002 12:03 PM Victim compensation program Hello I saw the Director or the "Manager" of the program on "The News Hour" last night. I agree that the government should do something to "help" the victims or their families. However, I do not believe that people should become millionaires because of this. I have nothing but the deepest sympathy for these people but to make millionaires out of some of them would be ludicrous. I saw one lady who complained that after cashing in her husbands life insurance she would be able to keep her house and keep her children in the same schools they are in. But she would get nothing else. What more does she want? It was obvious she was use to a life of luxury but life is tough and we sometimes have to make sacrifices to survive. Like getting a job. I believe we are setting a very bad precedent here. Where does it stop? Why not "compensate" the poor guy who goes to work and is run over by a train. Or the construction worker who falls off a building. What's the difference? I don't care how much money somebody's spouse made before. Life is tough and people sometimes have to make changes in order to move one. As far as law suits are concerned, I have serious doubts that a jury would award a huge settlement based on a lack of airport or airline security. I believe an attorney could show conclusively that the airlines provided the exact amount of security the public would tolerate prior to 9ll. For example, American airlines could show that if they implemented the security we now have in place the public would flock to another airline to avoid the "hassle" such security would have caused. In other words, we, not the airlines, were our own worst enemy prior to 9ll. Again, I can see "helping" people but making millionaires out of people is just wrong. The real kicker here is that the compensation doesn't include any charity they would get. The "Master" said that he came up with a figure of $250, 000.00, which I believe he got from the Dept. of Labor. That would be a fair amount if it allowed for life insurance policies and any money from charity to be added to it. If people would have to change their lifestyles because they were use to more money, too bad. Life is tough and it should be tough for all people. Individual Comment Chicago, IL September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-02-07 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 dojP000454.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. 2002-02-07