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, February 14, 2002 1:35 PM Disbursement of 9/ll Funds For your information, we contributed to the private 9/ll funding by donation and to the Federal 9/ll fund by paying taxes. These are our views regarding how these funds should be disbursed: 1. Payments should be limited to covering or reimbursing immediate outlays and expenses as they are incurred, not as a lump sum gift. 2. Donations were made to cover the expense of medical and hospital care for those injured, and survivors suffering from shock or depression, plus temporary assistance with rent, food, etc. for survivors until they can get their lives back on track. Understand that there is no way to make up for the loss of a loved one by paying some large amount of money! 3. There are existing (now well-funded) charitable organizations that can assist these families as they have been doing for other families in the past whenever disasters have occurred. 4. As far as scholarships for surviving children being provided, keep in mind that many children of working families across this country do not have tuition to attend college (unless the student works and earns the money). Some of these working families contributed to the funds (private and federal). 5. Some middle-aged parents had young, unmarried, adult children killed on 9/ll. There is no reason to make a lump sum payment to surviving parents unless to cover funeral expenses. You cannot establish some kind of payment for pain and suffering. There is no way to measure it! 6. This quote is from a recent, local newspaper columnist concerning disbursement of these funds: "We gave that money out of our hearts to help gravely wounded people get on with their lives. We did not give it so they could build up trading portfolios on Wall Street." 7. Neither the donations by individuals from around the world nor the government funds set up should go to establish any type of estate or annuity for survivors. No lump sum "gift" payments should be made. Thank you for considering our thoughts on this matter. Sincerely, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-02-14 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 dojP000512.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. 2002-02-14