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, January 14, 2002 10:45 AM (no subject) In response to Special Master Kenneth Feinberg: My son, &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp , a New York City Firefighter, perished in the World Trade Center. My son was 29 years of age, single with no children and earned approximately $50,000 per year. According to the guidelines in the "Presumed Economic and Non-Economic Loss Tables" on the USDOJ website his life would be worth approximately $816,000 minus "collateral payment". He had a $200,000 life insurance policy and as a fireman who dies in the line of duty that sum is augmented by an additional $50,000 to his beneficiaries. My wife and I are the next of kin, however, my son named his two brothers and sister as beneficiaries of his life insurance. We were recipients of a federal death benefit of $250,000 and as next of kin we are eligible to collect his pension of $2,025 per month. My wife is 57 years old and I am 60 years old. When this legislation was enacted and Congress bailed out the airlines, The City of New York, and the lease holder on the World Trade Center building, the intent of this law was that this fund would replace the rights of the families to sue those entities. Now the Special Master has stated that the collateral payments must be deducted off of any settlement. At the time this bill was passed into law the number of casualties was thought to be over 10,000. Since that time we have learned that because of the efforts of the over 400 firefighters, policemen and rescue workers who perished in the World Trade Center over 25,000 lives were saved in the greatest rescue ever achieved, bringing the death toll to around 3,000. These people perished because of a terrorist attack on The United States. To Mr. Feinberg I pose the question, "how much would my son's life be worth to him if he helped save his life or the life of one of his loved ones"! I urge you to please follow the will of Congress who's intent was not to further desecrate the memories of those who gave all in this first battle by a foreign power on our beloved shores. Below is a photo of our brave son, he is not just a name. Individual Comment Brooklyn, New York September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-14 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 dojN002506.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. 2002-01-14