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. 21 January, 2002 Mr. Kenneth L. Zwick Director, Office of Management Programs Civil Division U.S. Department of Justice Main Bldg. Room 3140 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington D.C. 20530-0001 RE: September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 Sir: I am writing this letter in protest over the regulations set forth by Special Master Kenneth Feinberg. As I understand this law, it is intended to provide FULL ECONOMIC and NON- ECONOMIC COMPENSATION TO ALL THE FAMILIES of those killed September 11th, 2001. The statute requires the Special Master to make an award based upon the individual circumstances of each claimant. I also understand that Mr. Feinberg arbitrarily established a system of guidelines that would determine the award each family would receive under the Fund without listening to any evidence and/or hearing how the tragic events of September 11th have affected individual families. He has already determined how much each family will receive by placing a salary cap and reducing the award if the family receives monies from collateral sources. Those families, who were well provided for, like my brother family, will receive nothing. I think it outrageous. Our government was grossly negligent in its duty to protect its citizens and now wants to add insult to injury by placing caps and restrictions on the monies awarded to the victims' families. This tragedy could have been avoided had the CIA, FBI, FAA and the airlines been more diligent in their duties. I am very angry that ALL the victims' families will not be treated on an individual basis as per the statute. As an American taxpayer and conscientious voter, I expect our government to put the citizens of the United States FIRST before pouring millions of dollars into Afghanistan (or any other country); to take the time, however long, to compensate these families according to the law. I urge you to remove Mr. Feinberg's guidelines, to provide hearings with an independent non-political, unbiased hearing officer and to compensate each family fairly by removing the salary caps and reductions from all collateral sources. I cannot help but think what a disgrace it would be to the families and a dishonor it would be to all those who died, especially to those who sacrificed their lives (in the air and on the ground) to save others. Please change these regulations. It's the right thing to do. Respectfully, Individual Comment Washington Township, NJ September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-30 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 dojN002437.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. 2002-01-30