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. Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 9:03 AM Subject: Victim's Compensation Fund Good morning, I have tried to accept the idea that our government has created a compensation fund for families of victims to the 911 tragedy; not that we as a united nation want to take care of our citizens, but that we are compensating the victims far more than we ever did our surviving families of active duty military servicemen. This is something that offends me personally and I am not a combat veteran, I cannot imagine for a second how offended our servicemen who fought day and night for weeks, months, and even years at a time in addition to rescuing and surviving the trauma. $1.6 million dollars is a ridiculous number! I would accept the same as military receive $250,000.00 and no more. The issue of the families arguing no offset is also offensive. Some of the families didn't prepare for any long term situations if any event occurred that was out of their control. Most people plan for this type of situation by obtaining life insurance, etc. Those that didn't are now going to be supported more than an average citizen who had their family member killed by a drunk driver. Those families are forced to go through the red tape and file and wait for the social service program processes to take its course, meanwhile barely survive. This is only slightly different because of the magnitude of the issue of terrorism (new kind of war); but what about the Pearl Harbor Victims?! Did they receive any Department of Justice funds that were relative to the $1.6 million dollars! Not to mention the money that the country has given for donations! I am sure this sets the 1.6 million to a very low bottom line. If you give to the families that fell victim to 911, then YOU MUST GIVE TO THE MILITARY SERVICEMEN'S FAMILIES!!!! I request that a serious look be given to what the Department of Justice has done by offering such a avenue to receive compensation from the government! It is ridiculously unfair and NOT Right! I will close by saying my prayers are with the families of the victims as they have always been and will always be with casualties of war! Thank you, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-24 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 dojP000063.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. 2002-01-24