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. Monday, January 07, 2002 11:29 AM How could life be only worth what you make? I really am disappointed to see that the government can value each person's life as a different dollar amount. I understand in normal circumstance the government only sees us as a tax identification number and with that comes our income. In this circumstance (which isn't normal) the human side and moral side should have some effect on the formula. The fact that this incident happened is horrible to begin with but then for the government to step in and claim someone who made more money at the time of the event, life is worth more. In a situation like this there is no possible way to weigh each families different variables. What about the person who was on a job interview that morning, technically they aren't making anything right? What about the woman who in today's society automatically makes less then a man-Are you then condoning the fact that a man's life is more valuable? I am greatly upset by the people who can look at these victims as number's at a time like this. The government took responsibility so all the insurance companies, airlines and companies within the buildings and/or area surrounding the buildings don't go into economic uproar due to lawsuits. Because the government stepped in it is now their responsibility to try to make the process as painless as possible. The only way I see fair without paying the already wealthy more is to award every victim a lump sum. The same amount due to the tragedy of a life ending. Each relative whomever that be deserves the same not one person more then the other. This will at least show that everyone person was worth the same and was unfortunate in the wrong place at the wrong time. If the lower income families aren't happy with the amount they can apply for help at non-profit organizations. Higher income families would not have to subtract deductibles. It wouldn't be an issue because if you had life insurance you deserve to receive it because you would have paid premiums. As for dependents, every child receives a fund set up for educational purposes...Therefore the child with have college paid for and in turn bring more expansion to the economy overtime. I wish that due to the nature of this the government would at least be able to say, "we weren't able to figure out a way to make the dollar amount fair without looking at some lives as less then another's so we are giving every life the exact same dollar amount." There is no way you can please everyone...but at least the government will look as if they tried to value each person. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-07 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 dojN001419.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. 2002-01-07