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. Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 12:52 AM Subject: Government compensation for 9/11 The idea that it is the responsibility of the government to compensate every victim of the 9/11 disaster is setting a catastrophic precedent. It has become apparent that more and more people consider this a jackpot that will take care of them for the rest of their lives. In view of the unprecedented outpouring of generosity from Americans all over the country this is a slap in the face of those who truly made sacrifices in order to donate to the various agencies working to help these families. Nothing can mitigate the pain of their loss, but neither is their fellow taxpayer obligated to make them rich. Is it going to be a policy from now on to compensate victims of any unforeseeable disaster with seven figure payments? The tax remission for two years plus ALL estate taxes is already a sizable payment. If this unseemly greed (and poor governmental judgment) continues there are many citizens, like myself, who will never make another charitable donation except in the case of a one-on-one situation where the need is verifiable and the recipient less demanding and considering it their "right" to be compensated. Individual Comment Newport Beach, California September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-24 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 dojP000050.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. 2002-01-24