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, November 08, 2001 11:25 AM RE: September 11th Victims Compensation Fund I lost my son, age 39, in the World Trade Center attack on Sept. 11, 2001. The grieving and the devastating loss of my son will remain with me for the rest of my life. Through my tears, I will try to express my opinion regarding the Compensation Fund. 1. Eligibility To Make a Claim Don't parents count? According to the regulation, if my daughter-in-law, (whom I am very close to), decides to go with the Fund, I am totally excluded from receiving any monetary damages. It should be specified that other family members (parents) should also be part of the award. Their award should not be deducted from the spouses. As the law stands now, I also cannot sue or file a lawsuit against the terrorists, terrorist organization or countries that support terrorism, nor can I sue any company for negligence. I am totally excluded as if my heartache does not matter. The regulation should clearly state that surviving family members have their own, derivative claims. The regulations should also create uniform rules addressing which family members are entitled to share in an award and how they will share in the award. Again, don't I count? 2. Nature & Amount of Awards The victims should have the option of accepting the award or being able to sue on their own. They should not have to sign away their right to sue before they know what the award will be. The victims should also be allowed to sue the assets of the Terrorist funds whether they receive an award from the Fund or not. The Act could not have been intended to protect the financial interest of terrorists or terrorist organizations. Collateral benefits should not include payments from charities. The regulations should create a procedure by which there can be an administrative appeal of the award. I certainly you can help me to have a voice in this matter. Thank you, Individual Comment Princeton, NJ September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-08 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 dojW000246.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. 2001-11-08