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. Thursday, December 27, 2001 1:39 PM 9-11 financial aid Dear Sirs: My question is for the Attorney General, John Ashcroft. First let me say that I support Mr. Ashcroft and think he is doing a great job! Most of my family attend church with and and have known them many years. The point is We're behind you! My question: The families in New York who have suffered loss of family or personal injury are certainly in need of assistance! No question! However, as I understand it, the compensation per each family averages over 1.3 million dollars and they stand to receive lots more money from the over 360 million dollars charitable donations. There are however other families who have been damaged even devastated from the 9-11 tragedy who do not reside in New York. Having grown up and lived most of my life in Kansas City, I moved to Destin Florida where I purchased a charter fishing boat. I invested all of my life savings and got a mortgage for another $500,000 about 10 months ago. Little did I know that all I had would go up in smoke along with the World Trade Center. Our business is 100% tourist driven. Since 9-11 there have been very few if any tourists. Non the less we have not had any business, $0 income since that day! What reservations we did have, cancelled. We are a mom and pop operation, we are not Disney or one of the major hotel chains that derive income from other states or countries. NO INCOME MEANS WE DO NOT PAY OUR BILLS! WE ARE TWO MONTHS BEHIND ON ALL OUR DEBTS AND ARE LOOKING DOWN BOTH BARRELS OF BANKRUPTCY! WE DO NOT WHAT TO LOSE OUR ENTIRE LIFE SAVINGS AND WHAT WE STRUCTURED TO BE OUR RETIREMENT. WE ARE SELF EMPLOYED NOW UNEMPLOYED! WHAT DO WE DO? OF ALL THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BEING FUNNELED TO NEW YORK IS THERE ANY HELP FOR FOLKS LIKE US? IF NOT WHY NOT? AND IF NOT, DON'T YOU BELIEVE THAT IT'S REALLY UNFAIR FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO SUBSIDIZE THE AIRLINES, MAKE PROVISIONS FOR THE HOTELS, AND MAKE MILLIONAIRES IN NEW YORK AND JUST LET THE REST OF US STARVE TO DEATH? I'M BEING COMPLETELY HONEST AND SINCERE, WE ARE DOWN TO NO GROCERY MONEY TO SAY NOTHING ABOUT ANY OF OUR PAYMENTS OR OBLIGATIONS, ALL BECAUSE OF THE FEAR PEOPLE HAVE HAD TO BOARD AIRPLANES OR VENTURE VERY FAR FROM HOME. A FEAR THAT IS FANNED AND ENLARGED BY CNN I MIGHT ADD! Mr. Ashcroft, we need immediate help! I know that you probably get thousands of letters like mine and probably never even see them, but this is a personal letter and a personal request for help! Can you, and will you help us? Thanks in advance for your consideration. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-27 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 dojN001012.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. 2001-12-27