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. Sunday, December 23, 2001 5:51 PM Compensation Fund My son was a victim of the attacks. He was 30 and single. He worked for &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp. The assumptions in the table for his lifetime income are way to low. For some of the other class of victims, you may be forcing them to make a poor financial decision because they need the money immediately to survive. It seems that you have set the matrix low on purpose in an effort to save the American taxpayers money. Judging by the amount of money the American people donated to relief agencies, you have made a gross error on their desires. This was not the tone of the bill that Congress passed. The non-economic awards of $250,000 are pitiful. The emergency workers have already gotten $250,000 from the Department of Justice, so they get to double dip, so to speak. Remember, the emergency workers know their risk when they pursue their careers in public service. The civilians just went to work on September 11th to support their families. They were also taxpayers supporting the emergiency workers. The civilians, under normal circumstances, would all file wrongful death suits and the amounts awarded would be far greater. Think if there were only 300 victims instead of 3000. You would have to agree that the amount set is way to low. I realize we can all request hearings. You have set the plan up to encourage hearings and that will result in 3000 hearings over a two year period. That is 6 hearings a day, at 2 hours a hearing, 12 hours of hearings a day for 2 years. That is clearly not the intention of the act. I would hope, over the next several weeks, you would reconsider your matrix and your non-economic awards. Once figures have been set to paper, there will be a reluctance by judges to deviate from those numbers. It is like a departmental budget awarding 5% raises to everyone. Everyone may not deserve a raise and some people may deserve more. Those that do not deserve a raise will not get it, but those that deserve more will not be given an additional share so the departmental budget will come in under projections. Again, not the intention if the Act. Individual Comment West Caldwell, NJ September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-23 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 dojN000832.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. 2001-12-23