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. Friday, January 04, 2002 5:32 PM compensation fund I am sure the only comments that you receive are from the people like me. I lost my mother. I am forty years old. I have two children that are finally growing up at ages 12 and 15. I was just starting to be able to spend some quality time with my mother. We had plans of travelling together and doing things together that we had dreamed about for so many years while the kids were young. My mother was so much a part of my life. She was always there for me and loved to share advice. We lived 1 1/2 hours away from each other so we enjoyed every minute that we got to spend together. She always shared her love for crafts and volunteering with me. Something I was not yet able to do. She knew she always had a home to stay at whenever she wanted to visit with us or her friends that she had moved away from when she retired. After September 11 everyone's lives changed. I feel heartsick every day thinking about the families with small children who lost a parent. It is unbearable. But I feel alone too. My mother had so many years of life left to share with so many people. For the first time in her life she didn't always worry about money and where it would come from. She decided to start doing things that she wanted to do. My Dad is left alone. I am the closest one to him. My parents lived on a small mountain road where there are few neighbors. I take a day off work each week to drive up and visit him for the day. It is so hard for me to see him so sad and not caring about life. How can anyone say that my mothers life is not worth the same as the next persons. I most certainly agree that mothers at home with young children need to be compensated. But to give someone 3-6 million dollars and my Dad 300-400 thousand dollars is a big difference. Think of how we feel when you say my mother's life is not worth nearly what the next persons is. Please explain this to me. Daughter of , killed on American Airlines flight 11 from Boston Individual Comment Bedford, MA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-04 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 dojN001349.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. 2002-01-04