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, November 06, 2001 3:53 PM Victims Funds This is a subject that I believe I can address with some sense of experience. In the months following the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City I served as of the Junior League of Oklahoma City. The Jr. League, along with many other agencies received a tremendous amount of money which was donated to us to ultimately benefit the victims' families and survivors of the Murrah Building bombing. We attended meetings with other agencies' representatives to allocate our donated funds. Each FEMA case was presented and we would "ante" up "X" number of dollars for each case. $2,000 toward the purchase of a van for a victim who lost a leg in the bombing, $50 to purchase clothing for 2 children to wear to their parents funerals, etc. It was very obvious to us what expenses should be covered and what expenses should not. We paid for a lot of home renovations to accommodate handicapped victims. We paid for a lot of funeral expenses and medical expenses. We did not pay for everything that was requested. We did not pay for new televisions or in one case an automatic lawn sprinkler system. I would think the September 11th tragedy is too large in scale for any group of people to sit in a room and hear all the FEMA cases presented one at a time. There might, however, be just such a group of people organized to work in that manner. I would guess that everyone affected by the tragedies on September 11 would have received a FEMA number. In any event, I feel from my experience with the OKC bombing donations and the conversations I have heard in my office since September 11th, leads me to believe that no one wants the victims or their families to become wealthy because of this tragedy. I have donated money to two different September 11 funds. My intention and the feeling of everyone I have talked to is to be sure the families are assured that they have medical expenses covered, burial expenses covered, current physcial needs met; wheel chairs, ramps, vans, etc. and future education expenses met. Additionally, we should pay for counseling expenses not covered by health insurance for a number of years. At the same time, we have no interest in buying larger, upgraded color tvs for anyone. I would strongly support a decision to reduce the payments from the unlimited fund to victims' families by the amount of charitable donations they received. The government's balance sheet is ALSO partially my money - my money sent to the government in the form of taxes. This is a question of wise money management. Period. It should not be politicized as it appears to have become. Additionally, there is a tremendous concern for the children that are now orphans due to losing both parents or perhaps being the child of a single parent and losing that only parent. I can understand that concern too as I am a single parent. I adopted my daughter in China last year. We need to spend as much money as necessary to adequately staff a group to disperse these funds. Please do not let this become a political issue that is decided by the loudest voices. The loudest voices may not speak with the greatest wisdom. Thank you, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-06 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 dojW000257.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. 2001-11-06