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. Tuesday, January 22, 2002 12:30 PM Victims Compensation Fund I believe the entire country feels an overwhelming sympathy for the families of this tragedy and with good intentions rallied behind the fund raising events to compensate them in some fashion. No one could have predicted the money contributed would be such a huge sum or that it would turn into such a nightmare for any organization to handle. So some amount of chaos and confusion is understandable. However, as an observer from Oklahoma where until 9-11 we were the site of the largest act of terror ( at a Federal building no less) and not one family received a penny of monetary assistance from any charity funds to ease the financial burden of losing an income earner in a split second, I am wondering if some kind of monster has been created. I have no argument about helping the families with funeral expenses and other non-routine expenses that have occurred due to this tragedy; or even paying routine living expenses until social security benefits or life insurance compensation arrives. However, I resent any attitude of "entitlement" to hundreds of thousands of dollars per family because they have suffered a loss in a violent and very public fashion. That a mother of three young children, who will very likely receive a large life insurance reward and will receive social security death benefits on all the children until they turn 18 should think that she should not have to go to work at some point is expecting nothing short of "welfare" disguised as a charity fund. People who are the victims of vicious acts of violence by mentally ill people are not entitled to become instant millionaires simply because they are also victims of world-wide sympathy. Every day there is a child who has become motherless or fatherless due to a cruel twist of fate; that child and surviving parent feels no less grief nor suffers any less financial burden yet they have to find a way, often totally on their own, to go on with life. Also, when the next terrorist act occurs, and if there are hundreds of victims, will America think those families should receive a monetary sympathy reward in equal value to the WTC fund? I don't mean to sound callous to any of the families but there has to be an equitable, fair way to help them without turning it into an arena of fighting over millions of dollars not because they actually "need" it but simply because it is there. Thank you for allowing such input.......... Individual Comment Seminole, Oklahoma September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-22 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 dojN002250.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. 2002-01-22