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 22, 2002 8:58 AM Comments on 9-11 Victims' Compensation Fund What happened on September 11 was unbelievably tragic. However, there have been countless other tragedies this past year. Consider these: * In October, the 28-year-old daughter of a friend died from breast cancer. She left a husband and two children under the age of 3. * Just before Christmas last year, the husband of a friend died very suddenly from heart failure. He left a wife (who is suffering from a debilitating disease) and two children. * In November, the daughter of another friend committed suicide after a long battle with depression. While she was unmarried and had no children, her loss devastated her parents. I am certain that, if you asked the families of these people who died, they would tell you that their loss was no less than that of the families who lost loved ones on September 11. However, none of these people can look to the government for payments of $1+ million. I have first-hand experience at this as well. I lost my husband very suddenly when I was only 31 years old. At that time, I had a year-old baby. What did the government do for me at that time? I received the Social Security death benefit of $255 and Social Security for my daughter. But there was no payout of millions of dollars to compensate me for my loss, and I can assure you that the loss that I suffered -- and the losses of my friends noted above -- was nothing short of horrible. I am outraged to hear the 9-11 victims' families whine about deducting life insurance, pensions, 401Ks and other sources of income from their victims' compensation fund payouts. While I don't deny that they have suffered a loss, what makes them think that they are now ENTITLED to become millionaires because of that loss? What about all of the other "victims" this year who left families who are not receiving a single penny? Thank you, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-22 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 dojN002213.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. 2002-01-22