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. Tuesday, January 08, 2002 10:11 AM The word just means fair. While I along with every other American, grieve the loss of lives, and the loss of innocence that America has suffered because of the terrorist attacks, the fact remains that when someone is brutally murdered, the families suffer. My husband was brutally murdered in 1990; he never had a chance. My, and my children's lives were instantly changed. I became a widow at the age of 34, children grew up without a father, a son was lost that day. There was no life insurance. We were not compensated by the government for the loss we suffered or the post traumatic stress disorder or anything else. The CVC paid for his funeral. Three children were under 17, and I had been a wife and mother all my life. The only child that received survivor's benefits from SS was the youngest; he was five. The other three were "only step-children", and supposed to receive child support. They DID not. We lived a life of poverty although we were innocent victims. Be it a plane, car, gun, or otherwise that causes the death the loss is the same. The tragedy remains; lives are forever changed, and the change is irrevocable. How do you measure the loss of a human life and what it means to a wife, son, etc? Their heirs are not usually compensated by anybody, and almost never by the taxpayers. As a taxpayer who has suffered all that these victims now suffer I must ask Why the victims of 11 Sept.? Is this not discrimination? How can their suffering and loss be calculated to be more than ours? Is this to prevent lawsuits against the airlines? The airline bailout is so far in excess of their losses associated with 11 Sept., they could pay millions per victim out of the excess. Charitable contributions for 11 Sept. victims and their families are probably enough by themselves. (I don't know the exact numbers.) The major side effect is the loss of contributions to previously existing charities, such as homeless shelters. Federal funds would be best spent on necessary humanitarian aid, without regard to whether or not 11 Sept. is the cause of the need. And for those who have enough, don't feed their greed. Individual Comment Texas September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-08 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 dojN001443.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. 2002-01-08