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 21, 2001 5:24 AM Comment on the Interim Final Rule on the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund I for one feel that the fund should be as restrictive or should attempt to minimize the amount that the government disburses to the victims as much as possible. While the incident sparking this was a horrific act, so was the Oklahoma City bombing, so was many other attacks and natural or accidental events. While the idea that the government is the life insurer of last resort in this case, allowing families of 9-11 victims to benefit excessively (once you add the charitable contributions that the rule ignores) is unfair to all those other victims from other events. Why should the family of a 9-11 victim, in addition to generous death benefits that occur in some cases (such as what I have read about NYC firefighters), and / or in addition to generous charitable contributions that will likely be disbursed, also receive hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars from the government? While no amount of money can make the family whole again due to the loss of life, it seems unjust to victims that came before and after 9-11 seem less important, it sets a bad precedent that you don't have to plan your family's finances yourself - the government will help them out, and puts an unfair burden on the citizens of the United States. I read that some families of victims that were making large incomes are upset because of a salary cap. If the victim was making millions of dollars, I would hope they put some of that away for a rainy day. The burden of their poor financial planning should NOT be borne by average Americans that can only imagine that type of lifestyle. Individual Comment Basking Ridge, NJ September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-21 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 dojN000216.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. 2001-12-21