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. Sunday, January 27, 2002 10:29 PM compensation While reading current articles about the disbursement of funds, I find it unsettling that some of the victims survivors feel they are OWED financial reimbursement by the United States government for loved ones lost in this tragedy. I certainly feel that these people have suffered a tremendous loss in an unprovoked attack on our country and its way of life. There have been several organizations that have accumulated hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars for these how have suffered true loss. I don't think however as a tax payer I feel comfortable giving monies through the government when these families are going to end up with millions of dollars from charities, scholarships for their children and other benefits from insurance. I do feel if a family was left destitute and needs immediate assistance for day to day living and family care and no other sources are available, then we should help, but when victims survivors are saying such things as "my children should want for nothing" is an unrealistic and greedy expectation. It is not the government responsibility to make individuals wealthy, but to assist in a short time to get them on their feet. Most of the people working in lower Manhattan were of significant income and probably provided for their loved ones thru insurance policies and others through the generosity of companies they worked for and as I already mentioned, the charity relief funds. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-27 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 dojP000211.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. 2002-01-27