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. Monday, January 07, 2002 4:16 AM Oxymoron Dear Special Master: (I love that title!) Department of "Justice"?? That cracks me up!!! And how much is pain and suffering and loss of salary worth to each of the families of the USS Cole, the Marine barracks in Bruit, Haiti, Grenada, Panama, the Gulf War, the US Embassies in Africa, Somalia, or even the one Sgt. killed in Afghanistan, et al?????? (We can put Vietnam, WWI, and WWII aside for now)! I find it troubling that we in the Armed Forces have been fighting and dying without notice or extra compensation for a long time. The attitude of the public has always been"That's their job--- that is what they get paid for." But when it is firemen and policemen and a priest and it happens on American soil, somehow that is different?? Aren't embassies US soil, and US ships, etc. equally part of the American fabric? I feel deeply for the legitimate survivors of the New York, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania casualties. As deeply, in fact, as I did when the USS Forrestal exploded and burned in the Tonkin Gulf in July of 1967. Ask my old squadron mate at the time, Sen. John S. McCain,III (R-AZ) about the 147 shipmates who were killed. We sent their families a letter of regret, their personal effects, a group life insurance check, and $255 to bury them. Let's not get into the categories of survivors!!! That appears to be a "whole 'nuther story"too!! So, with well in excess of a billion dollars to distribute, and discussions going on for reparations to slave descendents, etc, how about a little equity? And keep good records --- I'll want to see how much went to lawyers, overhead, and administration! And tell the whiners to just SHUT UP!!!!!!!! Individual Comment Ridgecrest, CA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-07 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 dojN001391.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. 2002-01-07