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 2:51 AM Needed Changes to Victim's Compensation Fund Dear Mr. Feinberg: My husband was killed in the WTC on September 11th, he was on the floor of Tower 2. He was 39 years old and a Vice President in his company. Upon reviewing the current rules associated with the Victim's Compensation Fund I've come to the conclusion that my son (21 months old) and I will receive nothing from the fund. We will be penalized because my husband had the common sense to plan for the future by securing life insurance. There should not be a deduction for life insurance and pensions. My husband's life insurance should not be used to subsidize the airline's negligence. My son and I will also be penalized because my husband's earnings for 2001 exceeded the salary cap and the only earnings that will be considered are those for the 1998 through 2000 year. My husband was promoted in 2001 and also received a substantial increase in salary that year; this should be considered in determining his future earnings. The terrorist attacks occurred in the fourth quarter of 2001; the year was almost over. Earnings for the 2001 year should be considered in the calculations and salary caps should be removed. The government never put a cap on the taxes my husband and I paid therefore, there should be no cap on his salary. Also, my husband's retirement age would have been 67 (he was born in 1962). The victim's families are not looking to profit off their loved ones death, like many people unaffected by this tragedy seem to think. We just want to be made whole financially; we would like to maintain a similar lifestyle to the one we would have had if our loved one was still alive. Instead of penalizing the victim's families our government should be penalizing those responsible for the terrorists attacks. The airlines should be held accountable for their lack of security, something which the public and government has been aware of for many years. It seems like our government is more concerned with protecting the airlines rather than the thousands of people who were victimized by the terrorist attacks. Who is the advocate for the victim's families? Also, why aren't Osama Bin Laden's frozen assets being used to subsidize the Victims Compensation Fund? What happens to these assets? Where do they eventually end up? How much of the taxpayers money is being used to feed the people in Afghanistan, a country we are at war with? These people we are feeding are the same people who were cheering in the streets upon hearing that the WTC towers collapsed killing thousands. These people are also the same people who ambush our soldiers. If the government uses the American people's money for humanitarian efforts in a country we are at war with, then why are they not willing to make whole all these families that have lost their main wage earner? Please revise the rules governing the Victims Compensation Fund so that the Fund becomes a viable option for people like me. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Sincerely, Individual Comment Emerson, NJ 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 dojN001611.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