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 12, 2001 11:16 PM victim Kenneth I. Zwick U.S. Department of Justice Dear Mr. Zwick, This is a very hard letter to write in the first place so I will make it easier on myself. I lost my husband. My daughter lost her dad. My inlaws lost their son. My brother in law and sister in law lost their brother. My sister and brother in law lost their brother. My nephews lost their uncle. Each person who perished or got disabled effected the lives of so many. Charities paid for three months of expenses so in other words basically deferred the payment of a mortgage, rent etc. by three months. This is societies generosity. This generosity is so greatly appreciated. It is a greatfull gift that all of us wish we never had to accept BUT we lost our loved ones forever and forever is not three or six months. We have to raise our children forever. The expenses of a very lavish lifestyle granted a much higher charitible benefit and this should not be repeated by OUR government. EACH victim is EQUAL and should be compensated equal. Consider a salary of $300,000 earned by a 30 year old versus a $ 60,000 salary earned by a 60 year old. These payouts using present value of salary and expected life years would value these peoples lives so unfairly. Nobody considered the most important facts**************** WHO TOLD THE PEOPLE TO STAY IN WORK??????? ESPECIALLY WHEN SMOKE WAS FILLING THE AIR IN 2WTC. WHY DID NO AUTHORITY GET THEM OUT OR AT LEAST TRY TO. This is what a lawsuit is about and the government is trying to settle these issues as well as hundreds of others without allowing us to know what damages we are getting until its too late. The government is settling these issues on behalf of the airlines, building owners etc so these funds in fact will be reimbursed to the government by the parties at fault. AMERICANS are not losing the tax dollars they think they are losing if the parties at fault pay the government accordingly. HOPEFULLY the government will do the right thing. I have been a government worker for 21 years. My husband was a government worker for 21 years. My parents retired as government workers. If pensions offset the compensation then all firefighters and police will end up with no compensatory damages because their pensions alone will offset the entire amount. I hope you consider what I have stated. Thank you for reading this. Heartfelt sympathies for all my new friends wo lost their loved ones. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-12 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 dojW000330.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. 2001-11-12