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. Thursday, March 07, 2002 5:16 PM Re: Victim Compensation Fund (9/11) I feel it is an absolute atrocity the people directly affected by the destruction of the Twin Towers are going to become rich over this tragedy. I feel they, of course, are due SOME compensation, but referencing your own 'Loss Calculation Tables' many of these people are going to become INSTANT millionaires. In my mind this is absolutely unacceptable! This is a terrible precedent to set. I say give the victims families one years wages and the children a fully paid college education. Period!!! Of course, without prejudice, the fallen/injured police and fireman and their immediate families should get MUCH more. I am retired U.S Navy... I, by choice, gave my country the best 20 years of my life. It is no secret that much of what was promised career military in the 50s and 60s has evaporated. In truth, we haven't even been given a decent cost of living raise in the 14 years its been since I retired. And our pensions are not near what our 'government employees' counterparts are. Basically, guess what I am saying is, "Where is our million dollars?' We certainly earned it. Also, giving the victims of 9/11 so much sets up a free for all for future incidents. Are we going to henceforth make all families of tragedies of this type millionaires? What about the families and victims of the Trade Center bombings in 1993? Or the Oklahoma City Bombing? Or the victims of the many tornados, earthquakes, and tornados in our country every year? Or the families of the people killed on our highways everyday? Or the shooting victims families? The list is endless. And the victims of the Twin Towers were not the only ones hurt by the attack. What about all the people laid off from their jobs because of it? Perhaps we should give all them a million dollars also... In summary, giving these people so much is a BAD idea. Let them make it in this world just like the rest of us. We all know this war against terror is going to be lengthy and costly both in money and lives. Our kids (soldiers) are giving THEIR lives for this campaign and their beneficiaries only get $100,000. Let's get realistic! Individual Comment Las Vegas, NV September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-07 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 dojR000002.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. 2002-03-07