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 12:59 PM Thanks for the immoral transfer of my family's wealth! My father died in December 2001. The taxes due on his estate will be approximately $550,000. This morning, I read a news story stating that the federal government intends to distribute from between $650,000 and $1,200,000 to each family that lost somebody on 9-11. Who the hell do you people think you are that you can confiscate some of my father's estate and redistribute it to families who happen to have lost a loved one in a different way? If you compare my family to any of the 9-11 WTC families, the only REAL differences are that my father died in Florida, someone from their family died in New York, and a large portion of my family's wealth is being redistributed to theirs. Both families suffered a great personal loss. Do you suppose we grieve less because our father was not killed by a terrorist? What about the people in the armed services? Is the federal government going to penalize people who don't have the right kind of tragety and distribute some of their hard earned pay to someone else who happens to fall into the Fed's twisted categories. Hell, our soldiers coming back from war have not even been able to get decent health care. I've been to the VA hospital and the conditions are disgusting. All I know is that I don't want to see tax dollars going towards ensuring that some investment banker's wife can keep driving her Mercedes and won't have to work the rest of her lazy life. What happened on 9-11 was tragic for everyone involved. But what person doesn't have anything tragic happen in their life? Should we all try to find blame for it and expect someone to compensate us monetarily? What a sick country we have become! You in the federal government just keep it up!! We common, hard working, sane citizens of the U.S. hate you more with each passing day. Individual Comment 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 dojN002502.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