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2002-03-12

Jan. 23, 2002

Kenneth L. Zwick
Director of Office of Management Programs
Civil Division
US Dept. of Justice
Main Bldg., Room 3140950 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20530

Dear Mr. Zwick:

You may think this letter heartless, however, I do want to state that I am against the victim
compensation program initiated for victims of 9/11.

I am a compassionate person and give willingly to many charities and I have given quite a bit to
the New York Fund which now I understand the victims we thought were getting the money are
not.

To say that this compensation act is to prevent them from suing the airlines is so much hooey.
The airlines were not at fault and any judge that would deem so should be disbarred.

In this day and time everyone should be aware of the insurance programs available for
dependents upon death by any means, end-of-life, accidental or any other. If they have not
prepared for this emergency then every taxpayer in this country shouldn't have to shoulder their
responsibility for them. Everyone thought that was why all the monies were asked for in the first
place and that is why I gave to that fund. Now I find that on top of that for those who have
received any of the money will be given funds of up to a million dollars. That amount as
published is to go to the wealthiest victims. That is asinine. The bulk of the money, if there is
going to be a fund, should go to the ones who are destitute. The wealthy have or should have
planned their lives in such ways that their families should be provided for. I am a person of very
limited means but my parents some 70 years ago insisted that we have insurance against death to
provide for our loved ones. We didn't depend upon the generosity of others to support our
dependents when we died.

Death is one thing that everyone is assured of and anyone that doesn't plan for that and has the
means to do so is either stupid or wants something for nothing.

I hope the comments of so many fellow Americans will carry some weight with all of you in
Washington who are so ready to give away the taxpayers money. However, if you are going to
do this, remember the victim's families who were killed on the USS Cole, also the survivors of
Okla. City and how about the survivors of Pearl Harbor and while you're at, the survivors of the
D-Day and the Battle of Bulge and Bataan. I could go on and on like this However, if you get
my drift cut out the pork let the airlines take the hit and the judges then to declare them not at
fault.

A Sensible Citizen

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Haltom City, Tx

2002-03-12