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. Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:16 AM Victim Compensation Fund Thanks for allowing this! I have often thought about this very subject and what the role of the American people should be in compensating the families and companies that have been affected by the occurrences on September 11. The following is just my opinion. I think that the US Government should distribute funds to help those families that have been investigated and found to actually be harmed by the 09/11 incidents. Those families should receive a modest tax break to allow for a rebuilding of their home life and to restructure themselves for the loss of income and to compensate for costs of medical, burial, or other expenses incurred as a direct result of the 09/11 incidents. The actual amount should be limited to a verifiable 2 years of wages lost by the family member whose lives were taken. This would include police, firefighters, passengers on the aircraft, aircrews, and those who have been identified as being in the WTC. This would be separate from the Governments policy in compensating the carriers for their loss. As to the carriers, the plan as outlined is sufficient. As to funds to allow for this compensation. I have a question to the DOJ. First, the DOJ has frozen international funds located in the United States that have been ear-marked as being a financial asset of the terrorist organization. Those funds have been frozen to deny any terrorist organization from being in a position to wage any type of terrorist campaign. What is being done with these funds? Admittedly, some of those funds are through a legitimate business source and some companies may not have been aware (either through a siphoning off or through a "middle man") that the money had been destined for a terrorist organization, but the bottom line is that the funds have been frozen. Why should the American people be made to pay the total amount? Introduce legislation or through Presidential edict that the money frozen would be used to compensate the American whose lives were lost by terrorist acts. This would alleviate the full financial burden on the US Government and yet, make the terrorists pay for the damage/harm they created. Thank you for allowing me to voice my opinion on this matter. Individual Comment Bonaire, Georgia September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-15 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 dojW000354.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. 2001-11-15