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 06, 2001 12:26 PM 9/11 fund Dear Mr. Ashcroft, I am writing in response to the Justice Dept.'s request for comments on the distribution of funds from the 9/11 fund. As I understand it, the law requires that awards should be reduced by any collateral sources of compensation received. It cites collateral sources such as life insurance or pension benefits. If the law does not rule out charity as a collateral source through specific mention or limit, then charity should be included as a credible collateral source. The argument that reducing fund awards because of charitable donations reduces the incentive for citizens to contribute to charity seems, to me, a poor one. First, this course allows for a larger pool of money to be distributed. Perhaps allowing for people who did not lose a loved one, but a job or a home, to receive compensation. Secondly, people did not give money to make victims wealthy. They gave to allow the victims a source of practical and needed help, to "land on their feet" as it were. If, through charity or contributions from the fund, victims and families get what they need, then mission accomplished. The actual source of the revenue is the same. Either a direct contribution, or from taxes which have been collected from these same giving people. Thirdly, if the charitable donations allow for some tax money to be saved, all the better. This may seem to run contrary to my first argument. If the goals of the fund and charity can be accomplished with money to spare, then the country can use that money elsewhere. As you are well aware, tax revenues are down, and the U.S.A. has many bills to pay, some of which are new since the 11th. I hope my comments on these matters are helpful to you. I do not envy you the decisions to be made in the coming weeks. I wish you luck, prudence and wisdom. Individual Comment Jackson Heights, NY September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-06 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 dojW000077.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. 2001-11-06