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 11:48 PM Victims Compensation Fund Master Feinberg: On September 11, 2001, my son , a firefighter with on Staten Island, responded to a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. He was murdered that day, along with many other rescue workers. Besides the rescue workers, thousands of people who were in the building to do a days work, were murdered also. The phenomenal rescue effort in which 25, 000 people were saved will go down in history. Public sympathy has been incredible. Almost immediately following this great tragedy the Federal Government set up a fund from which victim's family could recoup monies, in lieu of suing the Airlines. This has turned into a major travesty. To penalize person, mainly the firefighter, policemen, EMT worker, and Port Authority Personnel families by reducing their awards by the amounts of insurance and pension they have received is simply absurd. In my opinion, the Federal Government has let the American People down. Because of pure lack of vigilance and the softening of Immigration Laws and Airline Security this was allowed to happen. There have been many articles of late that give good evidence that plots and plans were uncovered. Plans in which airplanes would be used as bombs were discovered in the Phillipines as far back as 1994/95. The CIA & FBI were notified and nothing was done. Get Smart America! We have all be discouraged from suing the airlines because it has been said that their liability insurance is not great enough to cover the amount of claims that would be made in court against them. Pennies on the dollar would be recouped we've been told. Not even worth going that route has been said. However, if this wasn't the case and we could sue the Airlines and We Would Win, the awards granted WOULD NOT be reduced as you plan to reduce the awards from the Victim's Compensation Fund. THEREFORE, FOR THIS REASON, I AM AGAINST DEDUCTION OF INSURANCE PROCEEDS AND PENSIONS FROM ANY AWARDS THE VICTIM'S COMPENSATION FUND DISTRIBUTES. I find it very disheartening that we the families have had to come out first to protest for the dignified recovery of our loved ones and now this. Dealing with the grief from the loss of our loved ones is enough. OSAMA BIN LADEN MUST BE GLOATING AT THE WAY YOU ARE TREATING ALL OF US, THE VICTIM'S FAMILIES. Individual Comment Staten Island, NY 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 dojN001841.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