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. Wednesday, February 06, 2002 3:45 PM (no subject) My father was a Security Officer in Building Two on the . he had been looking for a job desperately after being released from a job whre he worked 24 years as an executive designing Sprinkler Systems. He was in his late fifties and had the hardest time finding a job. The home they lived in all my life for 34 years was coming into financial problems, so my dad knew he had to act fast. He knew that his salary would drop considerable but he needed the job and due to his age he wasn't getting many other offers. My mother was a Secretary and did not make enough money to support all of them. They both adopted my niece since she had been 3 months old. She was now attending Catholic School in Brooklyn and her tuition needed to be paid. He received an opportunity to work as a Security Officer. The salary was low but it was a job and he desperately needed one in order to support his family and save his home. He had to attend training classes and these classes included video tapes and he had to have knowledge of the exits and stairways. Of course this information isn't as useful when you have a terrorist attack like this one. I don't believe any of us ever took into consideration that our father was puttinghis life in danger. I don't believe we thought about the attack that occured previously. We were all relieved that Daddy had gotten a job because we knew how important it was to him. My father took this jjob very seriously and the people that worked there loved him. At my fathers memorial I had the opportunity to talk to most of the people who worked on his floor they all told us of the events of that day and where and what my father was doing. He was calm they said and he evacuated them and showed them where the exit to take was/ One ot the young men said he oiffered to help my father but my father yelled at him to get his ass out of here he could handle things. He went to evacuate others, after that he was never seen again. My father was a Security Officer and I am surprised that no one is taking into consideration that fact that alot of Security Officers lost their lives as well as Firemen and Police Officers. My father was assisting people to evacuate. If his job was to work at a desk like everyone else he would have made it out of the building, because he would only be responsible for himself. But he was to evacuate personnel that worked there that was his job and responsibility. Now my mother who has been married and never seperated from my father in 34 years is being told that based on the fact that my father was 61 years old and only made a minimum salary, his life isn't worth as much as anyone else because he would have retired in four years. My father is a Vietnam Veteran, he was in the Airforce as a medic in Vietnam from 1963 to 1969. At the age of 61 he was trim and in good health. He ran 6 miles a day and ran the New York State Marathon for many years. He was responsible for taking care of his 96 year old mother. I miss him so much. I have never known my parents to be apart for so long. The house is filled with his memory. My mother has not been able to return to work since September 11th. She is depressed and cries alot. Things she never had to do alone before she now has to learn to do. My niece of which my mother and father adopted has lost another father to Violent Crime. Her father had been murdered three years before and now her grandfather which assumed the role of her father has been murdered . She has a blank stare. I want justice for my mother and my niece and my grandmother. I can't take away their pain or mine. My dad was special and unique and many people would have loved to have known him. I know he was doing his job when he died. He just didn't realize that the building would collapse in the interim. He has worked hard all his life and paid taxes all his life just like every other hard working American citizen and even served his country. I do not believe that the Security Officers/Guards are being given fair consideration. Please reconsider your decision. You cannot put the Security Officer in the same category as other Personnel that were not hired for Security purposes. While everyone was trying to escape and save themselves my dad was showing them the way. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-02-06 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 dojP000427.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. 2002-02-06