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 22, 2002 7:45 AM (no subject) To Whom It May Concern First, I wish to request any available information concerning the Victims Compensation Act and the enrollment process. My brother-in-law was killed during the WTC attack, as he was on the 95th floor of the North building. I am attempting to assist his wife in the processing of benefits that she is eligible for. My name and contact information are listed below. Next I would like to address the provisions of the Act. Some criticism has come from familles that believe that the fund is insufficient and lacking. I personally feel that the government is being more then generous in it's efforts to provide compensation to the victims. I have persuaded my sister-in-law to pursue this avenue that is available to her and to disregard the legions of plaintiffs attorneys that have been attempting to derail this process. We have been subjected to numerous attorneys encroaching upon our families grief in an effort to ingratiate their pockets. If any piece of legislation should have been passed, it should have been a law protecting victims from attorney solicitations. As early as the second day after the attack, we had attorneys calling us, attempting to allow them to represent us, and no doubt, initiate a law suit. What I would like to see is the DOJ initiate actions against these attorney's that are steering the victims to institute class action suits against the airlines and Bin Laden. I truly believe that in the end, the victims will not receive additional compensation to this fund, and will be victimized again when they see how much their attorneys will walk away with. I also wish to say that I believe that the rules set up for the disbursement of the fund are both fair and adequate. I believe that other forms of compensation that the families received should be deducted from the total sum of the payment. I also believe that the total sum should be means tested. Since this is taxpayer money, it should not be a "free for all." I believe that people are becoming greedy and should be thankful for what is being provided, instead of looking for more. I also believe that families that receive large sums of money from insurance payouts should be zeroed out, as they have been provided for. I would encourage you not to bend to those who find the fund inadequate, and proceed on your original establishment of the rules. For there to even be such a fund available, is remarkable. If any of these people had simply died by any other means, they would not have any of this money available to them. Individual Comment Newark, DE September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-22 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 dojN002206.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. 2002-01-22