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 04, 2002 7:49 PM Compensation Fund Comment With reference to the above, while I sympathize with the pain families of the victims are feeling, as a citizen I am disturbed by what appears to be a new entitlement. I am also dismayed by the greed of the families based on comments they have made on television and stories in newspapers. Furthermore, it would appear that the life of a Wall St. trader and/or other high paid people is more highly valued than others. As a retired securities analyst with nearly 30 years on "Wall Street" I find the decision to base compensation from the fund on projected earnings to be unfair in this instance and somehwhat misguided. While, I realize that the decision is based on how settlements are decided in the insurance industry, the 9/11 situation is not typical. As a matter of fact, the projection that a 35 or 40 year old trader will work until age 65 is unrealistic. The majority of traders retire by the time their 50 or 55. In fact, the investment business is typically a youth oriented business and encourages early retirement. Earning spouses are killed in all types of accidents in this country everyday. Families cope and move on for the most part without government assistance. This program is overly generous. There is no easy way to say this, but I do not pay taxes to keep the widows of high paid professionals in expensive houses. I think the economic loss is more acute for the familes of lower-paid employees who worked in the buildings. Respectfully, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-02-04 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 dojP000389.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. 2002-02-04