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. Wednesday, January 16, 2002 8:34 PM Comments on WTC Victims Compensation I am the mother of a fallen Firefighter who remains missing to this date at the WTC.. I would like to tell you how patently unfair the present Victims' Compensation Regulations are in general, and in my case, it is specifically unfair to members of the uniformed services such as my son. It is an insult to limit to $250,000 non-economic loss. The loss of my son, and my pain and suffering is incalculable, and a limit of this amount is truly insulting. Your method of calculating "worth" by averaging the last three years income is also patently unfair for my son's case because he spent the previous five years of his life IN SERVICE TO THIS COUNTRY IN THE US MARINE CORPS, earning, as you may be aware, below poverty level wages for his loyalty and service to this country. In addition, he was earning an extremely low salary with the FDNY, , and was definitely not getting a salary that was commeasurate with Firefighters' salaries across the USA. Another extremely unfair aspect of your "Regulations" is the deductions of insurance, awards, pensions and other "collateral sources." This is unfair for the following reasons: The Federal Award for losing your life in the line of duty was never meant to replace any other source of reimbursement. This is something that our society gives to its public servants, and they should NOT be penalized for being a public servant. If you are responsible enough to buy and pay for life insurance, you should not be discriminated against. If a Police or Fire officer dies in the line of duty, society gives them a hero's award of a pension for their family for life. You have no right to once again penalize the person for being a hero. It is patently unfair to deduct a hero's pension from the settlement. Why is my son's life worth 50% less because he is single? Why is my son's life worth less because he was a responsible person and did not have any children? His worth is incalculable to me! His loss is irreplaceable . According to your guidelines you are penalized for being responsible, for giving loyalty and service to your country, for being a public servant, and for being a middle class American. You are insulting and discriminating against The Firefighters, Police and EMS workers. In addition, your settlement terms are equally unfair to the civilians. It is an American disgrace that the Airlines are protected, Larry Silverstein Properties are protected, the Port Authority is protected, but the only ones who are NOT PROTECTED ARE THE 3,000 victims of the World Trade Center Disaster! Please change these guidelines Immediately. Individual Comment Bronx, NY September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-16 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 dojN001912.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. 2002-01-16