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. Wednesday, November 07, 2001 12:21 PM Sept. 11 Victims' Compensation - comment I gather that the idea here is to buy off victims (and all those who will pretend to be) from suing the airlines, etc. over deaths and injuries resulting from the attacks on the U.S. Sept. 11. While I sympathize with all those who are hurting I cannot understand why the taxpayers are going to be required to pay this. Americans, my family included, have already contributed to the Red Cross and the other victims' relief funds MORE MONEY THAN THEY KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH and the money is still pouring in if one can believe the news. No amount of money can replace a dead loved one or heal a horrible injury; but the money is there already to try to ease the suffering and buffer people against financial setbacks. As to the apparent goal of keeping the trial lawyers from bankrupting every airline and insurance company on the planet to line their own pockets, there is a far better remedy. The courts should properly and summarily dismiss the lawsuits as they arrive. This was an act of war, nothing less. Because of our collective complacency, we got hurt very badly; but is was OUR collective complacency. The U.S. Government was complacent, the FAA was complacent, we the people were complacent and we've paid a terrible price. But it is ridiculous to allow the trial lawyers to try to single out any "deep pockets" defendant they can find and try to rack up billable hours extorting money from them (and, when all the dust settles, from all of us in the form of ticket prices, increased insurance premiums, etc. etc.) Do not make the September 11 tragedy any worse than it is. Let the charities do their work - dismiss the frivolous lawsuits and let the taxpayers try to keep their families going, being Americans, and maybe keeping the whole economy from going down the drain. Respectfully, Individual Comment Kansas City, Missouri September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-07 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 dojW000179.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. 2001-11-07