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. Wednesday, December 26, 2001 1:31 PM victim's compensation It seems to me we are getting carried away with the amount of the proposed awards to the victims of 9/11. I am hearing ranges up to several million dollars per family. And why not consider chartitable contributions to those families? This sounds like we have a new policy for aid to victims of disasters. I would say we probably can't afford to have a substantial economic stimulus package after we get done spreading the funds to the airlines and the victims. And will these awards benefit the country generally or just the victim's families? I have the greatest sympathy for the 9/11 victims but in the past I do not believe we have been nearly so generous with such victims. What did we do for the Oklahoma City victims? I could cite other examples but you are well aware of the past disasters where we were much less generous. There are some things in life for which the US government in the past did not assume responsibility and I question the new philosophy about government intervention. Aren't the ultimate benfici aries here the airlines and their insurance carriers? Aren't they being protected by requiring general releases from the victims to be compensated? Is there some theory under which the US government would have had responsibility for the terrorist attacks? If the airlines in fact did something for which they would have been responsible should they be bailed out by the US government? If they default because of the verdicts which might ultimately be rendered won't another airline be created to fill the void? Aren't many of the insurance carriers foreign carriers? Should we be bailing them out? In brief, unless I don't understand something about our new policy of compensation to the victims of disasters, I think we are being too generous with the 9/11 victims and I think the ultimate beneficiaries will be the airlines and their insurance carrier. Am I missing something here? Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-26 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 dojN000941.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. 2001-12-26