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. January 22, 2002 Honorable Hillary Clinton 780 Third Avenue Suite 2601 New York, NY 10017 Re: September 11 Victims' Compensation Fund Dear Senator Clinton: I am writing you because I am greatly disturbed by your proposed changes to the September 11 Victims' Compensation Fund Rules and your recent press conference with unfortunate victims of September 11. With all due respect, you and those victims who are complaining about the amount of Federal benefits are forgetting something very fundamental-the purpose of this Fund is not to create yet another class of millionaires or to "get rich." Every victim should be grateful beyond measure the government is paying them anything at all. This is unprecedented in American history; it has never been done or even proposed before, even after other great tragedies too numerous to mention. The taxpayers of America owe the victims of September 11 nothing. Indeed, once again, Americans have already showed their generosity in the huge, unprecedented, charitable giving to this point. All the victims of September 11th already stand to benefit from monies donated to the Red Cross, th e United Way and many other charities; there may also be private insurance policies involved as well as social security. For any victim to complain that proposed government payments are not enough is disgusting. Your support of such indefensible whining and self-pity is disgraceful. Very truly yours, Individual Comment Tucson, AZ PAR:keb cc: Kenneth L. Zwick, Director, Office of Management Programs United States Department of Justice (via facsimile 301-519-5956) September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-22 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 dojN002551.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. 2002-01-22