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. Saturday, January 19, 2002 11:11 PM Compensation Act Comments Jan 19, 2002 Dear Mr. Feinberg, Please try to be more compassionate with the families who are grieving and suffering from the loss of their loved ones. Many victims were the sole providers such as my beautiful husband, , who meant the world to me and his children. He as well as all of the innocent victims are not here to fulfill the goals and dreams they had for their families or to assist with all future expenses. Please do not deduct any insurances or compensations from the Federal Governments September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Our loved ones worked very hard to provide for their families future dreams. They did not know such a tragedy would end it all. It is wrong for the fund to treat life insurance as offsets to be deducted from any awards. Life insurance is a separate entity and should not be associated with the fund, they are two unrelated issues. Families should not be penalized for securing insurances in case of ones death. Mr. Feinberg, the Governor, the Mayor and several of our highly respected officials, lawyers and economists have found a number of deficiencies with the fund. They feel it was hastily put together and that many rules must be changed, calculations are unfair and tables are from old statistics. They have also claimed that the growth path of earnings should be better recognized in the rules. We must think of the future of our children and the future dreams, goals and potential of our loved ones, who were taken from us on that tragic day and changed our lives forever. Please try to eliminate these continuous burdens on the victims families. We are not allowed to grieve or find peace because we must wait each and every day for you to complete a fair compensation award. Havent we suffered enough? Also due to the horrific extenuating circumstances that revolves around this case, there is no amount possible that can satisfy the families with the great loss, pain and suffering we are going through. Every moment of my life I will think about how my beautiful, special, loving husband, , suffered those last few moments of his precious life. He was the world to his family and our hearts will be broken forever. All those lost forever at the World Trade Center were such beautiful loving and caring people. We must all remember one thing, this world is a better place because of each and every one of them. I hope that you can see fit to help achieve the future goals and dreams our loved ones worked so hard for and resolve this matter as soon as possible. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-19 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 dojN002107.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. 2002-01-19