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. 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 Individual Comment Haltom City, Tx September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-12 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 dojP000608.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. 2002-03-12