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, February 03, 2002 1:16 PM Distribution of funds Dear Sirs: I read that compensation of victims will be based on future earning power of the victims, which in essence means that the wealthiest families will receive the most money and the poorest families will receive the least. Those most likely to have resources and savings will receive more, and those least likely to have resources will receive the least. To me there seem to be two fair ways to distribute funds. One would be to distribute based on need. The other would be to equally divide the money among all of the victims' families. To distribute the funds the way you are planning is to say that wealthy or well educated people are intrinsically more worthy than people with less education or money, which is anathema to the values the country was founded on. I urge you to reconsider your decision in this matter. To continue as you presently propose to do is terribly unfair. Sincerely, Individual Comment Houston, Tx. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-02-03 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 dojP000367.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. 2002-02-03