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. Saturday, January 19, 2002 9:59 PM Victim's Compensation Fund To Whom it Concern: I am writing to you about the Victim's Compensation Fund for the victims of the World Trade Center from 9/11. While no fund would ever be totally fair in everyone's eyes, with all due respect this plan is largely unfair. I personally have no vested monetary interest in the fund, as I did not have any family members die. One of best friends did not make, as did another person i knew and my company lost many people from our division Carr Futures. But even if I didn't know anyone there, I would still feel the way that I do. The parts that are unfair in my eyes are basing it on victim's salary In general older people are going to have a higher salary than a younger person, but because they are older they will have in general a shorter life span. That younger person would have their salary going up for a longer period of time than an older higher salaried person would. There is just no fair way to have weighted average salaries basing it on salaries of the past three years. The only way is for everyone to get the same amount of money as a base amount and then adjust for the amount of dependents they have That brings me to point #2. What constitutes a dependent? While I would certainly never disagree with the fact that spouses and children are very important dependents, what about parents who were dependent on a child who died.........or for that matter any other relatives that were dependent on the person who died. They should be entitled to money also And as far as the family members giving up the right to sue........... Without knowing a definite amount they are entitled to, how can someone give up the right to sue? They may not sue if they knew how much they were getting. They should know the amount they are getting and if they don't accept it, the they can sue.....But to give up one's right to sue without knowing what they will be getting is ridiculous. As far as the non-economic award, to me there is no way of knowing of how long each person suffered. To me that is very hard to judge who suffered more or less, everyone suffered that didn't make it. These amounts should be equal and they should be higher than they are I know that it can't be easy for you to come up with amounts that will be fair to everyone. I just wanted to send in an opinion' from someone who will not be entitled to a dime from the Funds. While I did lose someone close to me, I am not writing this entirely because of him... Thanks for your time Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-19 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 dojN002084.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. 2002-01-19