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, November 20, 2001 12:00 PM Victims' Compensation Fund Dear Mr. Zwick: I write to you on behalf of my sister, , who lost her husband, , at the World Trade Center. is now left to raise their two girls, ages three and one, on her own. I will not delineate what elements of economic and non- economic damages I believe should be available under the fund or whether or not you should permit appeals of the Special Master's decisions. Instead, I ask only that you fulfill the promise Congress made when the fund statute was passed - take care of these families. In the days immediately following the attack, the days when we were combing the city trying desperately to find in one of the many area hospitals, it seemed that the City and country couldn't do enough to help the families. At the family centers, volunteers waited with food and drink and anything else we could possibly need. They took care of us. On television various charities asked for donations, celebrities held concerts to raise funds; they promised to take care of us. My sister was so amazed by the outpouring of love and support that even she donated to the Red Cross. Everyone promised my sister it would be okay - that the country would take care of her and their beautiful girls. Now, two months later, the country's charities have reneged on their promise. After hundreds of hours of investigation and a significant amount of groveling, my sister has received approximately $30,000 of the almost one billion dollars collected, and it does not appear that there is anything more on the horizon. They are not going to take care of her and her little girls. The reason I tell you this is because the rumors that are circulating indicate that the federal government is about to walk out on her as well. That the regulations to be released in December will so limit potential recovery that the fund will become meaningless. The statute Congress passed allows for potentially realistic recovery - if it is interpreted in a manner that emphasizes making the families 'whole' rather than in a manner that saves the federal government as much money as possible. The thought that the government might deduct from her recovery the $30,000 she received from various charities is obscene. It seems as though the promises of help made in September were made without much thought, and now, after having given it some consideration, our would-be saviors are heading for the hills. The country's charities have already abandoned the families of September 11th, please do not do the same. Thank you for your consideration. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-20 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 dojW000407.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. 2001-11-20