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2001-12-04

Tuesday, December 04, 2001 5:09 PM
Comments on Regulations for 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund

Mr. Kenneth L. Zwick, Director
Office of Management Programs, Civil Division
US Department of Justice

Dear Sir,

I am writing to add to the public comment on your work in deciding the
criteria for those who will be benefactors of the "September 11 Victim
Compensation Fund". I am very concern that radical elements of this
country will attempt to sway these administrative rules to exclude
grieving surviving direct or indirect victims of the events of September
11 attacks using a far too limiting set of rules.

I would expect that this fund should provide financial support to any
surviving victim of this tragedy regardless of sexual orientation. I
believe the chief criteria should be that the survivor was engaged in a
committed relationship with a victim of the blast and/or relied on the
support of a killed victim for their survival. Such a determination
should be determinable legally through such attributes as having shared
and mutually paid for a common place of residence, shared and were legal
owners of a common bank account and/or were related direct dependents
such as all adopted children of a blast victim.

It would be a total mis-carriage of the mission of the "Civil Division"
of the Justice Department should such victim categories not be included
for relief from a fund setup by the resources of ALL citizens of the
United States!

Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

Individual Comment
Strongsville, Ohio

2001-12-04