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. Friday, January 18, 2002 2:21 PM Absolutely terrible As an American citizen and taxpayer, I am outraged by the distribution proposals for this fund. This fund was created to protect both the families and the airlines; however, it seems to me that the airlines are the ones who will most find relief. While there is nothing that can make the deaths of so many loved ones less painful for the affected families, the least we can do as a society is to try to provide ALL families with monetary comfort. I do not see how we can differentiate between the families -- in the name of fairness, the fund should be distributed EQUALLY to ALL who were affected. How can you penalize a family who scrimped and saved to purchase life insurance? Perhaps they have less saved than others who did not pay out the sums to purchase such security. Also, addressing the most outrageous shortcoming of this proposal, how do you discriminate against the families of those men and women who sacrificed their lives to save others? Yes, firefighters, police officers, and other emergency workers have a level of danger in their jobs, but the September 11 terrorist attacks went beyond any "reasonable" risk one could have imagined. Thus, their pensions and line of duty compensation should be considered above and beyond any other compensatory awards. Anything less is an insult to the heroic efforts of these men and women (how many thousands of people did they save on September 11?) and their families who now must live without them. I do hope you reconsider the distribution of this fund. Our Constitution says that "All people are created equal"; it would be nice if the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund reflected this. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-18 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 dojN001999.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. 2002-01-18