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. Tuesday, January 15, 2002 10:55 AM victim compensation fund Dear Mr. Zwick: My name, Mr. Zwick, is . My fiancé and I worked at ,One World Trade Center. Floor. One World Trade is gone, as is my . I am here able to write you simply because we were leaving for Bermuda on Sept 12th,to wed on Saturday Sept 15th. I decided to stay home that fateful day to take care of last minute wedding plans. Unfortunately went to work that day and perished with my friends and co-workers of 13 years and all the others who are lost. I understand the Victims Comp Fund is only recognizing next of kin in the fund distribution. Had it been four days later I would indeed be next of kin as would my 5 year old daughter, . lived with us since 1999, and contributed to our home. We had a beautiful life and future planned together, that was suddenly ripped from us. His life and heart were here with and I; as were his bills and expenses. His future income would have come here to his family as he knew it; as he chose it. There are many in similar situations, fiancés and domestic partners. Your decisions should not be a blanket black or white, but based on each individual case where there is a doubt. Other charities have openly recognized the suffering in these instances and have helped, I implore you to be wise and help also. We do exist, we suffer, we have lost our future as planned with our perspective partners, must we also go un recognized in the plan to compensate our loss. Loss of love, companionship, parenthood and income, we suffer this even more than the parents whom they have not lived with for many years. We are the ones who must rebuild our households and finances. I too deserve to be recognized as a victim of this murderous act. Our leaders should have the capacity to deal justly in these matters, to witness all who have suffered. I wish to thank all on the committee for your consideration in this matter. Open your hearts, listen to our stories, listen to your conscience..... Your burden is a heavy one and will affect real lives for many years to come. Please take the e extra time to judge fairly. I remain Individual Comment Hoboken,NJ September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-15 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 dojN001616.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. 2002-01-15