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. Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 7:37 AM Subject: WTC hush money WTC hush money The WTC victims families compensation formula calls for about $4.5 billion to be paid. The payout is dependent on the families agreeing not to sue the airlines. This multibillion dollar plan constitutes hush money. I do not believe Americans would have contributed $1.5 billion to WTC charities if they'd known their government would allocate $4.5 billion to $6 billion more. This policy now establishes that any further terrorist-caused fatalities will each result in a $1.6 million financial award. Meanwhile, the Pentagon families have not received extraordinary benefits. Nor the anthrax victim families, nor families of the Rangers and Deltas lost in Somalia to terrorist action, or sailors on the Cole. The government has established another national entitlement without any debate. And it is shocking to hear survivor families state they are entitled to compensation. Many victims' families are quoted as expecting that their financial well being and children's education will be taken care of by WTC compensation. In other words, it is now the government's obligation to take care of them. What will this mean to the next firefighter or police officer who loses his or her life in the line of duty-- that their lives were worth less than those lost on 9.11? We the taxpayers owe the families our compassion and charitable assistance, but we don't owe them cash. People buy life insurance to assure that their families will be cared for when they die. It is not the responsibility of taxpayers to become a substitute for insurance. Individual Comment Greens Fork, IN September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-23 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 dojP000012.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. 2002-01-23