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 14, 2002 1:51 AM Comment on Interim Final Rule January 13, 2002 Dear Director Zwick, As a brother of a victim who was murdered in the World Trade Center, lets talk about what the special nature of this ?fund? should be. The fund should be set up because people like my brother were going about their business in the WTC and were murdered largely because the US government were unconcerned, uncommitted and about three months too late in protecting them. Furthermore, the fund is being set up because the US government didn?t act when the same terrorists attacked the same WTC tower in 1993 (didn?t the severity of this attack give you any hints, massive bomb, luckily few deaths). What about when American embassies were attacked in Africa, and American military interests were attacked (i.e. the Cole) in Yemen? If my brother, had died under different circumstances, he would have received his life insurance and other regular benefits, and that would be the end of it. But he didn?t die that way. He died a ?wrongful death? and government organizations (i.e. like the FAA) and companies the government wants to protect (i.e. the airlines) are culpable. So to summarize, the reason that the federal fund has been set up, is to compensate our family for this ?wrongful death?. The fund is there so that families like my own do not sue the various agencies, governments, companies and individuals responsible for their deaths. So why is the government offsetting benefits like life insurance (i.e. the collateral compensation) from the victims compensation payout? After all my family would have received this life insurance had my brother died a ?normal death?. Don?t let people like my brother - who paid life insurance premiums and who died because of significant negligence - bail you out. Instead determine an amount that we deserve for the ?wrongful death? of a 34-year old of significant worth, and don?t offset this by anything. Yours truly, Individual Comment Phoenix, AZ September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-14 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 dojN001575.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. 2002-01-14