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. Wednesday, January 16, 2002 4:23 PM Victims Compensation Fund, Att: Mr Zwick Dear Mr. Zwick: On September 11th. my husband, woke up at 5:00 AM as he did every morning. He said his prayers, went out for his run then proceeded to drive to work. I am proud to say he was a successful man in his own right. At 41 years old and he was at in One World Trade Center. He did not return home to his family that evening and never had a chance to get a call out. He leaves behind a wife of 18 years, three children, parents, brothers, sisters, in-laws, friends...the ripple effect goes on. The pain we now must live with is indescribable. I am writing you today Sir simple to ask you not to forget these men and their families. As you know, in the immediate aftermath of this tragic attack, our Congress enacted unprecedented legislation to bail out the airlines by imposing a caps on their liability thus restricting, (and for all intense purposes eliminating), victim's constitutional right to pursue legal action against the airline who at this point they hold primarily responsible. Congress at the same time set up the Victim Compensation Fund in order for families to receive full and fair compensation for economic and non-economic damages. Of course that was after all families had to endure a "collateral source deduction" something completely unheard of in any state's civil court system. The DOJ has decided to further add insult to injury by imposing arbitrary "interim rules." These rules require families to blindly sign up, thereby giving up all their rights without knowing what their outcome will be. They are being forced to accept a hearing process lasting on average 2 hours and their only right to appeal would be under "extraordinary circumstances," which are not defined and left to open interpretation. Moreover, the DOJ has imposed arbitrary income limits which severely penalizes the very people who were victimize by this heinous attack, namely those who work with in the financial industry. I thought that I lived through it all after September 11th, but these interim rules have so hurt the very people they were designed to help, that they have left this American truly shocked and disheartened. As a leader of strenght through out these dark days, I ask of you Sir to please intervene on behalf of these families and insist that the income caps be removed and the final rules please live up to the full spirit of the legislation so that ALL who opt into the fund will be treated in a fair and equitable manner. The families of the victims ask for nothing more or less than what these good people deserve. If our government turns it's back on these families now in their time of need, then Osama Bin Laden and the terrorist have won. Sincerely, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-16 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 dojN001903.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. 2002-01-16