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, November 08, 2001 1:50 PM Victims Compensation Fund Before 9/11, my husband and I lived in Battery Park City (BPC)one block west of the World Trade Center. My husband lived there since 1990 and loved being that close to the Trade Center. He had a special relationship with those structures and with downtown Manhattan. On his recommendation, I acquiesced to stay there after we married in 1998. I quickly learned to love city living since it was nothing like typical city life. AND I was able to walk to work! Being so happy to live there, my husband did his daily drive to work over an hour away in Westchester. I do not exaggerate how we loved living in BPC. It was a quiet spacious enclave where we could live close to the financial district, the focal point of our careers. And, the apartment was rent stabilized. I was walking to work and was a block away from the WTC when I heard the first plane hit. I saw the floor burning and stayed to help out anyway I could. The first shock was seeing people leap from the building. It was unbelievable! Then another plane flew right over my head and crashed into the second tower. We ran to a park further south. It was such a beautiful day! We congregated there in that beautiful space with the Statue of Liberty at our backs watching the towers burn as we tried to phone our loved ones. "Thank God they built those buildings to withstand that kind of impact and not collapse", the woman to my right commented. That was about 5 minutes before we heard the rumble of the building coming down. Within seconds the dust was falling all around us. Eventually, after the other tower collapsed, a bus drove us north. My husband and I haven't lived in our home since. Because of the effect of the poor air quality on my health, we can't move back to our apartment at this time. Although we'd like to keep the apartment and wait a few months and move back, we could never afford two rents. Our only choice seems to be to move. Do you know what all that means? To name a FEW... >It means our life is turned upside down. >It means we have to live in a furnished space that costs a lot -- PLENTY >more than our BPC home cost. It means we've gone to others for assistance, such as FEMA which so far has only given us $2038 for rental assistance. >It means we have to deal with a lot of paperwork. One example is that FEMA >ceased assistance because we had insurance and we were told that we must >submit more paperwork which is obtained from the insurance company which is >swamped with work and takes awhile to get to. (P.S. Our insurance was >used up in the first 3 weeks). >It means we can't have a lot of belongings with us because we have to move >those belonging with us wherever we go. Which means, for example, that you >can't stock a kitchen with food and condiments and supplies. >It means that suddenly we may have to find another place to live in a town >that we never considered moving to. >It means that I've found it impossible to keep on working because we have a >lot of things that need to be taken care of ASAP in a situation that has a >lot of uncertainty. >IT MEANS THAT WE'RE SPENDING A LOT MORE MONEY THAN WE DID BEFORE 9/11. Please understand that the residents of lower Manhattan have also been victimized by the events of September 11th. Everyday our lives are effected by the reverberation of the collapse of the WTC. We need not to be forgotten, we need not to be overlooked, we need recognition of our plight. We need financial support. Individual Comment New York City, NY September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-08 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 dojW000242.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. 2001-11-08