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. Monday, January 21, 2002 9:22 PM (no subject) January 21, 2002 Dear Mr. Zwick: I would like to take this opportunity to express my disappointment in the way the Victim Compensation Fund is currently being regulated. My husband lost his life on September 11, 2001. He in Building 1 of the World Trade Center. He and I had two daughters together and they are soon to turn three years old. My husband worked very hard, day and night, weekday and weekend, to ensure that our daughters would have a prosperous future, one which would provide them with opportunities to grow and learn and live in the best way possible. My husband is gone now; I want to make sure that his dreams for our daughters live on. I find it unjust that the Victim Compensation Fund currently deducts life insurance and 401K plan payments from money to be donated to victims' families. Life insurance and 401 K plans were paid for by victims and their families, not by the government. Though my husband did not earn very much in salary last year-- he did, after all, have to pay the rent for two offices and the salary for four employees--his potential earning power as both a lawyer and an accountant was enormous. My husband, through his diligence, intelligence, and hard work, had built a great reputation in his field, and his clients counted on his expertise and sound advice. Now, according to the current regulations and charts, our family is entitled to almost nothing. How can I continue to build a future when I am asked to subsist on so little? The loss of my husband haunts me each and every day, and now I feel as though the tremendous pain I am suffering is being compounded by regulations that are insensitive to the needs of my family and our future. We, the victims' families, should have the right to know how much we will be compensated before we renounce our right to sue. It is crucial that we be provided with this information as we prepare for the difficult and painful times ahead. Please consider changing these regulations. Knowing that my family is provided for, that my daughters' futures are bright and without conceivable limits, will alleviate, ever so slightly, some of our anguish. It will give us the peace we so desperately need at this heartbreaking time. Thank you for taking the time to read this letter. Sincerely, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-21 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 dojN002198.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. 2002-01-21