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, November 08, 2001 8:01 AM BPC residents Dear Sir; I am writing on behalf of my family We were all within 200 yards of the WTC at the time of the attack in different locations. My son's school (PS 89), my work (WFC 2), and our home were all in Battery Park City. We all survived the attack, but our lives will never be the same because of this event which will haunt us forever. I want the Victim's Compensation Fund to realize and prepare for the fact that damages suffered might not readily be apparent so soon after the attack. We have suffered from many short-term inconveniences that I will not list. I am more concerned about the long-term physical and psychological problems we face. My two sons spent the night of September 11th in the lobby of a downtown hotel. I am extremely worried about the exposure they got to harmful substances in the air. They got additional exposure when the mayor of New York city had us move back home on 09/23/01, a date many now consider to have been to early. As a parent, I will have to worry about this each day of my life. It is too early to tell how my children will remember this event. I would like you to consider that they are among the very few children to have witnessed this disaster and that their childhood memories will be of a place that was destroyed in a highly publicized way. My son and his classmates were evacuated from elementary school as the buildings with parents in them fell behind them. I did not find my son until 4pm that afternoon. No one knows the ramifications of living with this reality, and I want to make sure that the kids of PS 89 are remembered and given some consideration. Because we fled the area after learning about air quality issues, my son is in his second first grade class this year. His is with his brother and mother in California while I stay in a motel in New Jersey close to a temporary work building. When I locate a new home, he will have to change classes yet again. It is hard for me to describe all the things my family has gone through in the last weeks, but I will say that all of the residents of Battery Park city have similar stories. Once we have attended the needs of the dead, we hope that you watch out for the needs of the living victims with long-term issues yet to surface. Sincerely, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-08 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 dojW000248.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. 2001-11-08