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. Sunday, February 10, 2002 Mr. Kenneth L. Zwick, Director Office of Management Programs Civil Division U.S. Department of Justice Main Building, Room 3140 950 Pennsylvania, Avenue Washington DC 20530 Dear Mr. Zwick: While my heart goes out to the victim's families of 911, I do not believe that the citizens of the United States of America should have to compensate them. No amount of money will return a loved one to them. As a hospice chaplain I encounter people in grief every day. Money will not make the grief go away and will probably bring more strife where healing needs to be. This crusade to collect financial reimbursement makes absolutely no sense and is unjust. What is the precedent here, what does it say about past tragedies, like the Oklahoma City bombing? We the people were caught unaware by a human being without a heart. We will not let that happen again. Who is overseeing the just use of the billions of dollars that have been willingly donated by U.S. taxpayers? I object to the very idea of the government disbursing taxpayers' money to reimburse people for something like this. I do agree that victims and their families should not be able to sue the U.S. government. No amount of money will bring healing to those who have had their lives ripped apart. I would urge all Americans to pull together and to voluntarily help those in need, as we have done throughout our history, rather than being forced to. Grief is a very emotional thing. A grieving person lives, breathes, and dreams questions of why and who and"I am so angry." I pray that those affected by 911 would find a deeper more lasting healing. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Individual Comment Beloit, WI September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-02-10 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 dojP000607.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. 2002-02-10