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 8:35 AM compensation fund Dear Person, First, I do not support this fund at all. I understand it exists primarily to shelter the airlines from litigation. As such, it has now created a huge new social problem. If nothing else, witness the greedy whining and puling of the prospective benefactors. Does this signal that we Americans no longer have to plan for the future, including catastrophe, because the USG will be there to care for us? I hope not! If you insist on doing this, the idea of allocating payouts based upon projected earnings is repugnant!! How can the govt use such a horribly distorted view of the value of human life in a charity action?? You folks are thinking like lawyers and not like Americans. I suppose this is the nasty link to the airline litigation issue coming to the surface. I can understand insurance offsets and such, but projected earning is disgusting. Give 'em all the same base amount - if you give at all. Where does this precedent end? Is the federal government now prepared to run some sort of charity program in each new catastrophe? If so, since you are using MY MONEY, why should I give to the real charities since you will now be thinking for me in these cases? And what is the threshold for the next "catastrophe"? Can I get a payout if I am killed in a highway crash, or a non-terrorist airplane crash, or in any aspect of government service (even as a contractor)? You have opened Pandora's Box. And finally, if you don't think I understand this program, IT'S YOUR FAULT. This has sneaked into our consciousness without much real debate. I understand the desire to help these folks, but this is a poorly conceived program. Spend MY money on the troops fighting the war, not the greedy "victims" fighting each other. Individual Comment California, MD 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 dojN002208.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