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, December 28, 2001 1:23 AM (no subject) Dear Mr.Zwick, I represent over 200 firefighters who have sustained a wide range of physical injuries on September 11 and in the days and weeks immediately following. It would appear that the definition of "physical harm" promulgated in the regulations would not include many seriously injured individuals who succumbed to pulmonary injuries as a result of working at the World Trade Center. Moreover, the definition, taken together with the phrases "immediate aftermath" and "present at the site" make it difficult if not impossible to determine if a firefighter who was present on September 11 through September 20 would be included or excluded from coverage under the Act if he or she failed to see a doctor within 24 hours of having "sustained" the injury. In most, if not all, of the cases that I am involved in, the pulmonary complications began with in 24 hours of the exposure. However, the firefighters continued to work without proper protection because of representations made by federal and local authorities that the air quality was "safe". I, along with many other trial attorneys, have undertaken to represent these individuals pro bono with the hope that they would be able to make claims under this Act rather than having to commence traditional tort lawsuits. Additionally, since they may suffer from future injuries which could be very severe,it is our belief that they fall within the intent of the original statute. The regulations appear to construe the legislative intent of this Act to be to the contrary. I am certain that it was the intent of both the House of Representatives and the Senate to adequately protect those rescuers who succumbed and will succumb to injury as a result of this event. I would hope that the final rule will redefine both "immediate aftermath" and "physical harm" to include those who attempted to save lives. Very truly yours, Individual Comment New York, New York September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-28 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 dojN001043.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. 2001-12-28