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. Saturday, November 10, 2001 6:44 PM Just thought i'd throw in my thoughts- I hope this helps in some measure. Recently, there has been a growing debate concerning the allocation of various charity funds to the victims of Sept. 11th. Shortly after the terrorist events, Congress established an unlimited fund to compensate the victims. However, since that time, over a billion dollars has been donated to a variety of charitable organizations also established to aid those same victims. Subsequently, the uncomfortable question that arises is: Should a family's compensation from the government fund be raised or lowered based on the level of other charitable donations they accept? To me, the answer to this question is clear: The amount of other charity accepted by each family should unequivocally be a factor in determining their award from the government. It seems highly unfair to grant the same amount of money to those families who have received substantive secondary charity as to those who have not. I believe that, ideally, each family should be granted the same 'punitive' award in recognition of their pain and suffering, and the government's failure to protect them. In addition, the government should evaluate each family's unique financial circumstances and appropriate the commensurate funds to aid them. The intended result of these measures being to compensate families for their loss so they will not need to sue other entities (which is part of accepting the government's funds), to ensure the financial stability of the affected families, and to avoid unfairly enriching some families while not giving enough to others. These actions should draw on a combination of the government's allocated funds and the donations given to other charitable organizations. Any funds which remain unspent after these measures are complete should be used to compensate the victims of other or future terrorist attacks. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-10 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 dojW000304.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. 2001-11-10