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. Monday, November 05, 2001 4:08 PM Comment - Compensation Payment Comment concerning a victim's compensation payment to family members of those killed as a result of the 9/11 attacks: The surviving family members of those who died as a result of the terrorist attacks on 9/11 must be compensated by the victim's compensation fund. Although the acts causing the death of innocent people on 9/11 were acts of war, war had not yet been declared. There was no advance notice to those who died to avoid certain activity that could cause death, therefore they were not contributorily negligent in any way. It was the government that was negligent in performing intelligence required to detect in advance that attacks against the United States were planned. Had proper intelligence existed, and perhaps had government agencies heeded advance warnings made by foreign governments of the danger, the attacks could possible been avoided. In addition, the INS wrongly allowed terrorists with expired visas to remain in the United States; the Justice Department failed to inform the INS of the identity of terrorists seeking entrance to the United States; the INS wrongly allowed the terrorist ringleader, Mohamed Atta, to enter the United States although his name was on a United States security blacklist. Had these United States government agencies been performing their function properly, the attacks against the United States may have been prevented. For these reasons, it is proper that the United States government compensate the surviving immediate family members, spouse and children, for the loss of those killed on 9/11 as a result of the ttacks. Although monetary compensation cannot replace a loved one, and the victims cannot be made entirely whole, compensation should be calculated in a way similar to a wrongful death action under Federal law. That compensation should include the estimated lost wages for the anticipated remaining working lifespan of the decedent. The survivors should be expected to meet daily living expenses, including health care and college from this payment as they would had the money been earned wages. The compensation should be calculated regardless of any existing insurance or retirement proceeds since that money is independent of real lost wages felt by dependents of the survivors. Compensation for other expenses such as attorney's fees, pain and suffering etc. should be allowed only if they are permitted in a federal wrongful death action. Thank you for inviting public comment into the decision making process. Individual Comment Silver Spring, MD September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-05 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 dojW000031.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. 2001-11-05