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 1:11 PM compensation fund Dear Mr. Zwick I am appalled and outraged that the survivors of the Sept. 11th tragedies are going to be compensated by the U.S. government/ U.S. taxpayers. While I feel that the September 11th attacks were horrible acts against the people of this country, I do not feel that these people are owed this money and the amounts are equally appalling.. A couple reasons stick out to me as to why this should be stopped and I am sure that there are more. 1. For the government to compensate these people through a special relief fund, sidesteps the existing welfare system. These people should have to go through the same channels as everyone else in need. This sets an unfair precedent that some lives are worth more than others. 2. There are no guarantees in life and life is not fair. These people do not have a "right" to continue to live a life they are accustomed to. Survivors and partners of victims need to go and seek relief through the private relief funds (ex. Red Cross,etc.), existing welfare systems(ex. unemployment,etc.), life insurance, and return to the workforce to earn a living. 3. This type of compensation opens a "Pandora's box" as to whom receives relief and for what type of tragedy. If federal compensation is o.k. for WTC survivors then why not Oklahoma City bombing survivors, plane crashes of any kind, armed robbery victims, etc.,etc.? As you can see, the list is endless. I fell very badly for what happened to these people and their families but for them to get the compensation that is being talked about is simply unfair. It is unfair to them and it is unfair to the taxpayers of this country, of which I am one. Please let me know what can be done to put a stop to this. Thank you Individual Comment Chicago, IL 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 dojN001451.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