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. Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:03 AM Non-economic loss Mr. Feinberg: My husband was one of the victims of the terrorist attack on the Pentagon, September 11, 2001. He left behind myself and our two children, ages 7 and 10. I cannot begin to put into words the magnitude of the loss felt by our children. I am asking for you to consider raising the non-economic loss amounts for the children. The program as it is designed (if the economic loss figures are adjusted) would be intended to provide the economic loss from my husband no longer here working and bringing home our sole source of income. Therefore (if I simplify to make a point) you would give us 100% of his projected income, then deduct what we receive for workman's comp and social security. While the children are dependents, this amount is 75%. This would give me 25% from the fund. (We would then deduct life insurance and add non-economic loss). A person who has lost their spouse, and does not have any dependents, would receive 50% from the fund since they already receive 50% from workman's comp. I understand why this is done, but it doesn't make sense to me fundamentally that as a stay-at-home mother with two young children I would receive so much less from the program than a spouse with grown children or without children. Therefore, it would make sense to increase the non-economic loss figures for the children who have been left for the rest of their lives without a father. They suffer this trauma everyday as they hear and see their friends with their dads and live without the important influence and love of a father. They have lost a crucial part of themselves--a part for which there can never be a replacement. This will affect them forever. PLEASE think about this and consider increasing the non-economic loss amounts for the children from this tragedy. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-17 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 dojN001933.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. 2002-01-17