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 20, 2002 9:50 PM Input to Federal Victims Compensation Program This is to summarize my objections to the interim regulations proposed in the Federal Victims Compensation Program. We lost our 24 year old son &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp in the 9/11 tragedy. My concerns fall into both the economic and non-economic areas. Economic - the use of national earnings averages greatly distorts an equitable projection over our son's anticipated 38 year work life. As an equity trader, &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp was off to a remarkable compensation start as an equity trader and based on his superiors - could expect sizeable economic gains through his performance. In fact the data used in the draft proposed appears to be in line with 1979 statistics. - the $230K cap on earnings also should be removed. &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp would easily pass this bar in the early stages of his career. His estate is being penalized with such an arbitrary ceiling. - such an arbitrary low model will drive far lower settlements that are resonable. non-economic - proposing $250K as the settlement amount for pain and suffering is inexcusable. Airline settlements give an indication of the amounts arrived at through trials. The anguish we continue to feel through our loss continues today. So far we have had two incidences where pieces of our son were identified.....and were told this could go on again and again.......for upwards of anywhere from 2-10 years! - The suffering of our family will continue forever. A jet aircraft overhead, reading the sensationalism in the news, seeing our other children relive this horror through ongoing experiences that trigger recalling the horror. Knowing that history will keep pointing to this monumental day.........all equates to permanent suffering. - $250K is simply a non starter - likely 1/10th of what it should be. - Such a disparity only adds to our pain.....we are now becoming victims ourselves. Our government let us down as citizens and it is only fair that it shows compassion to innocent citizens who were left unprotected. Finally, to agree to forgo suing parties who we feel are culpable - without knowing what our resolution to be is unfair. If we are uncomfortable going into the process - how will it get better? It is wrong to not know what to expect up front.......or to go to trial if we are unhappy after understanding the government's position. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-20 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 dojN002143.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. 2002-01-20