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, February 11, 2002 6:58 PM Distribution of Donated Funds/Contributions Short time back, wrote my Senator, Rick Santorum because everyone from the Red Cross to United Way was starting to divert citizen donated disaster dollars to their pet areas--words used were "discretionary allocations". When asking for these donations, the sales pitch was that every dollar would go to the "victims" I both agreed and donated. In short order, when the dollars started to mount due to a generous American public, not only did the funds appear to be going elsewhere, but weeks later, the survivors failed to receive the initial help to cover day to day expenses like food and after more weeks, they still went wanting. Had it not been for one Fox newsman, , doing a day in and out on the misappropriation of these funds, one doubts whether your office would now have oversight. Now we hear of the NOW organization wishing to claim their piece of the survivors fund to "train women in construction when the new buildings are erected on the WTC site" Then there are persistent reports that "chauffeurs", better known as NYC cabbies, have been granted up to 10K for lost fares. When I sent money, it was for "survivors families", including the brave police and firemen that lost their lives. I do not envy your offices overlook on these claims because where do they stop. The view of people leaping to their deaths from WTC is burnt into my memory every time I see those buildings on an old movie or related, it is truly depressing. Does that mean I should be requesting compensation for mental anguish? No way. I respectfully request that you guys meter out the monies to those most in need - the survivors families. I think America owes their children a college education and ensure they do not lose their homes because the bread winner lost his life. This also applies to those poor souls who died in those plane crashes. For all the other half baked opportunist that come to you looking for a free ride, boot them out. Thanks: Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-02-11 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 dojP000494.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. 2002-02-11