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, November 06, 2001 4:27 PM Victim's Compensation Fund Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to express my feelings because I feel that victims of the September 11 tragedies should have their awards reduced by the amount of charitable aid they receive. It is not because I do not know these families have suffered. It is because the purpose of this fund as I see it is to make families whole from this horrible act, not enrich them at the expense of taxpayers. Workers are killed or permanently disabled every day in on-the-job accidents. One of the functions of my job is to administer a scholarship program for the children of these workers in Alabama. They may receive workers' compensation and/or SSI, but that is it. If workers who are killed have no life insurance, there is no group offering money for these families until their children are grown. My house burned when I was a child. Of course people gave us clothes and such, but insurance rebuilt our house. My grandparents' house was destroyed by a tornado. Again, insurance rebuilt their house. To me it is an issue of fairness. What is fair for all the people whose homes are destroyed or who lose a family member each year to hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, car wrecks or robbers? Yes, these families' loss is terrible. However, I feel it is no more terrible than any other family who loses a family member or home to a tragedy. Sincerely, Individual Comment Montgomery, AL September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-06 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 dojW000129.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. 2001-11-06