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, November 06, 2001 1:28 PM Payments to Victims To Whom it May Concern: I've got a major problem with this. Though I sympathize and feel for those persons who lost family in the attacks of September 11, I do not believe that those acts of terror should make the families of the victims millionaires, and that seems to be exactly where all this funding is headed. The Red Cross has ceased accepting donations after having already accrued $500 million. The September 11th Fund is up to $320 million. The death toll for NY is not yet final, but, more and more, it seems that the figure will come in well below that originally thought. If one takes the current estimate of those dead at 4800 and rounds it up to 5000 and divides that into the $820 million noted above, then each family can potentially receive $164,000 right there. This does not even take into account all of the monies donated to other charities as well as those designated specifically for the firefighters and resuce workers. And, in fact, the average worker in the Word Trade towers, the Pentagon, and rescue field was NOT without life insurance and a pension. Consequently, it seems most of these families are going to do all right without the funding set aside by the government. However, the morass is there and can't be undone (unless congress votes to rescind the bill, which they should not have passed in such a knee-jerk fashion in the first place!). Therefore, I strongly recommend that any charitable monies received by the victims' families be deducted from any government payment. Sincerely, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-06 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 dojW000101.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. 2001-11-06