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. Friday, November 30, 2001 4:48 PM Comments Dear Attorney General Ashcroft: My brother &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp was killed in the word trade center attack. At the time of his death &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp was engaged to be married to a wonderful woman. In dealing with the various charities and victim assistance organizations since this horrific event I have found that there is very little assistance available for my brother's fiance. We were told by the Red Cross and the NYS Victims' Assistance Bureau that if &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp and his fiance had made the decision to live together prior to marriage then she could make a claim for loss of support. However, since they chose to live separately prior to their wedding date, she is not entitled to assistance. &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp fiance has suffered a horrendous loss and indeed her future has changed forever. Her life will never be the same. Unlike the widow of a victim, however, she has no standing to claim anything. That is simply not fair, and I hope this injustice is not continued with this victim fund. It is my strongly held view that the lives of those victims who are unmarried should not be treated as though they are worth less than those who were married. My parents, siblings and my brother's fiance have had our hearts ripped from us and stomped on by these events. Please do not make matters worse by enacting rules and regulations that make &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp life worth less than those who were further along in their life plan. To us, we not only lost my dear brother, but we lost all of his future progeny. Although &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp loved children greatly and planned to have several, due to these horrible events he has no descendants that will carry on his legacy. This loss will always be with us. My brother's fiance should be entitled to loss of consortium and his parents and siblings should be entitled to damage for loss of love and affection. In addition &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp lost wages should be recoverable even though he was not currently actively supporting individuals. His future wages certainly would have been used to do just that. Thank you for your thoughtful consideration. Individual Comment Boston, Massachusetts September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-30 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 dojA000232.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. 2001-11-30