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 26, 2002 3:08 PM Interim Final Rule I have kept up with reading the submitted comments and I am very pleased to see that the closer the 'end date for submitting comments' got, the more comments I read AGAINST this program. It should be cancelled. I still have not read/heard anything about what the government position is on FUTURE SIMILAR EVENTS, or how they plan to prevent chaos at future 'mass disaster sites' caused by uninvolved parties flooding the area so they can get in line for the next handout. The government DOES NOT have answers to these problems they are causing, and I consider it to be negligence to go ahead with this program without addressing those issues. Anyway,.... First, I would like to request that a stipulation be put on compensation that if the recipient dies of other than natural causes, any remaining funds be returned to the government. The way these 'survivors-of-victims' are already at each other (1st wife vs. 2nd wife, parents vs. spouse, biological vs. step-kids, etc.), I wouldn't doubt if some 'mysterious' deaths occur after funds have been received. The tax payers should not have to support these 'survivors-of-victims', let alone some totally irrelevant person who couldn't otherwise get their hands on the money. Second, I would like to point out that most of the comments that complain about the 'paltry' amount being offered them in compensation make the assumption that they would WIN a lawsuit against the airport/airline/city/federal government agency/etc. I don't think this is a 'slam dunk' case that justifies such an assumption. There is a significant possibility they would be sent away empty handed, or at best get a 'secondary responsibility' award - the ultimate responsible party being the terrorists. Also, there need be no legal fees in collecting the fund compensation. They would also not have to go thru 5-10 years of uncertainty/hassles/etc. associated with the litigation. I would consider the elimination of this 'pain and suffering' to be worth at least 20 cents-on-the-dollar (the 80%-20% rule). And the max. available is only $6billion (cap set at insurance limit) for 3000 victims. An average would yield about $2Million per claimant. So, if you figure a 50%-50% shot at win/lose (on litigation), a 30% expense for legal costs, and a 20% reduction for 'no hassle', you can figure the 'cents-on-the-dollar' the fund compensation could provided vs. expected award if litigate-and-win: 50% of (1 - (30 % + 20%)) = 50% of 50% = 25-cents-on-the-dollar vs. $2 million -> flat $500,000 for fund compensation amount. I suggest you go with that and forget all these tables/deductions/etc. It is more than they deserve, and they are free to not accept it. Lets move on to something more important! Just Me Individual Comment Denver, CO September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-26 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 dojP000173.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. 2002-01-26