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, December 20, 2001 8:31 PM Families become victims of the compensation fund. Mr Feinberg, and I were upset today at what you put in place for victims compensation. We were victimized on Sept. 11th when we lost our 23 year old daughter, , on American Airlines flight 11 to a group of terrorists. Today we became your victims. graduated from in December of 2000 with honors and started working for as in . Her mother and I were very proud of her. The US Congress started out with very good intentions to compensate the families in place of suing the airlines and to help the airlines economically, you have accomplished neither. had life insurance and was flying on business so we also received insurance from the credit card insurance. With payments from the insurance companies and other government payments we will receive $803,000 of which one third goes to brother. Using the tables that you, Mr. Feinberg, published today we are eligible for a settlement of approximately $840,000. We are not looking for a large settlement as money will not replace our daughter, but the $37,000 net settlement from your fund, is a slap in the face - victims still. You were trying to get people not to sue the Airlines and I believe that what you did today will force many of us to initiate lawsuits which many of us would prefer not to do. Mr. Feinberg, you should have put a minimum settlement in place so that each family would receive something reasonable. As it stands now, many will receive little to nothing. Mr. Feinberg, your table does not accurately reflect the potential future earnings of each individual. The $250,000 doesn't come close to reflecting the pain and suffering that families are experiencing. Please consider a minimum amount so that each family would get something from this fund. You know very well that many of the people in the towers and on the planes were business people with life insurance and pension plans. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-20 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 dojN000113.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. 2001-12-20