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. Monday, January 21, 2002 5:26 AM Comments on interim rule To whom it may concern: My daughter died on Flight 93, a hero for her country. I went to the White House Reception for Family Members of Flight 93, and the Chief of Staff told us so in his opening remarks before the President's address to us. He spoke to us on behalf of the entire White House staff, who thanked us all individually as we left for the heroism of the passengers on that flight, which potentially saved their lives. I am dismayed by the interim rule for three reasons: (1) Obviously, I believe that the passengers on Flight 93 were special. They took a vote to save the lives of their countrymen. They deserve some recognition of their heroism. To date, they and their families have received a quite nice reception at the White House, but little else. (2) Beyond the special circumstances of Flight 93 as opposed to the passengers of the other flights, ALL passengers on ALL the flights of September 11th entered into a situation in which the airlines AND the government, by extension and agreements with the airlines vis-a-vis airport security, were responsible specifically for their safety. The passengers on all of the flights should be compensated at a higher rate than those who were on the ground because of the inevitability of their fate once they were on the planes in comparison to the chance presence of victims on the ground at the sites where the planes went down. The airlines and the government (again by extension) were specifically responsible for my daughter and the rest of the passengers on Flight 93 and the other planes. (Theoretically, the government is also responsible for the presence (and by extension the safety) of the staff personnel who were victims at the Pentagon.) (3) The interim rule proposes on the first page to avoid making calculations by income levels, etc., yet apparently on the following pages it outlines plans to do just exactly that. Such calculations do not address the loss to me and my daughter's mother of the POTENTIAL FOR JOY IN LIFE, watching our daughter complete her college course and enter into a productive life helping others as a child psychologist. My daughter's age and occupation as a student place her in a category which is addressed by "individual circumstances", without explaining what those individual circumstances are. I have described some of the indivual circumstances which I think affect the "calculation" of loss caused by the death of my daughter as a passenger, as a hero, and as a potential source of joy in life which has been taken from me as a result of the poor security systems in place at Newark Airport. I expect that the interim rule will have to be amended in order to more adquately address the individual circumstances I have described. I am reluctant to accept the current form of this document as a model for the final compensation system. I understand the difficulty of developing this rule, and I hope to be able to see an improved final version and to be able to accept it. Sincerely, Individual Comment Stockton, CA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-21 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 dojN002156.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. 2002-01-21