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. Sunday, January 06, 2002 5:31 PM Feinberg's plan Dear Sir: I lost my son, a New York City Firefighter at the World Trade Center. As the compensation plan now stands I do not plan on submitting an application to it. I think the whole concept is unfair. It would appear that I would receive next to nothing for my son's life. Despite the fact that you make a lawsuit sound more like a threat than anything else, I would rather take my chances with that. Although I have no desire to do so, unless you revise the way you figure compensation I will go with the lawsuit. It appears that you are rewarding people for being irresponsible and selfish. The way you figured it, if a person took a high paying job such as bond trading, not considering how he could help humanity, only looking out for himself, and he was irresponsible enough to spend all his money instead of buying insurance, you will reward him with a large amount of compensation. Whereas, someone like my son who was Mensa eligible, had a B A in Environmental Science but was more interested in helping his fellow man than in making a lot of money is thought to be worth less to you. Additionally, my son was aware that in helping his fellow man he was placing himself in mortal danger. Therefore he had the foresight to insure himself. So, you place more monetary value on the life of a selfish, greedy, uncaring individual than on the life of a selfless, caring, humanitarian. I cannot let that stand. I can spend as much time in court as all of your bureaucrats and I will. I am not alone in my feelings. Judging from people that I speak with in my support groups there are many people that feel the same way. I am sure that people are not rushing to embrace your plan. If you were wondering why, now you know. I would ask that you reconsider the deductibles. You will get more cooperation and less rancor if you do. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-06 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 dojN001362.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. 2002-01-06