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. Tuesday, January 22, 2002 11:55 AM 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Dear Dept. of Justice, As a hard-working taxpayer and U.S. citizen, I want to express my opinion of the Victim Compensation Fund. First of all, I don't believe such a fund should exist. As we have all seen the amount of private donations to the victims has been extraordinay. Also as the actual count of the victims has dropped dramatically, the amount of private donations for each of those victims families has risen dramatically. Therefore, do any of the victims families really need any taxpayer money on top of the massive windfall of private contributions they are already receiving? Also the horrible precedent that this fund sets is very scary as a tax payer. Why should the victims of 9/11 be treated any differently than anyone else whom dies unexpectedly? If the victims of 9/11 are compensated so generously by the US taxpayer, what is to preclude any other unexpected deaths to be not compensated? Concerning the amounts that are being discussed for the 9/11 victims; I am appalled at the huge amounts of tax-free money being thrown at the victims families. When did the idea of compensation shift from helping the victims get back on their feet and meeting immediate expenses to one of trying to make them independetly wealthy and not wanting for anything the rest of their lives? The whining from the victims' families about the size of the compensation is revolting. These ungrateful jerks shouln't be getting any taxpayer money at all, and all they do is scream and whine about not getting more. Have they no shame? Why in the hell do these people think they should be entitled to pick the pockets of hard working taxpayers? Please tell these whining jerks to shut-up and start being more grateful for every penney they get. Lastly, there is a lot of whining about life insurance proceeds being deducted from the amounts being givern out. Please explain to me why the amount of Life Insurance a person held was adequate to cover an untimely death while that person was alive, but as soon as they are killed then the amount of Life Insurance they held is no longer adequate. All of these victims and their families made Life Insurance decisions while those people were living, it clearly was their duty to have an amount of life insurance which would provide for the survivors in the event of an untimely death. Again, why would those people now complain about not having enough compensation?, they picked their own level of life insurance. DUH Please take these concerns seriously. The concerns of the non-victim US citizens must be taken into account. After all it is my money you are throwing around to these ingrates. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-22 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 dojN002247.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. 2002-01-22