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. Friday, January 18, 2002 2:55 PM Comments Special Master Kenneth Feinberg I am appealing to you for your help with the victims compensation fund. I have lost my husband and father of my two young children (under 3) because of the atrocities of September 11. Under the current tables and the offsets for life insurance and pensions, my family will be receiving little if any money. Though no amount of money will bring my 35-year-old husband back to my family, I do need to continue to live and raise my children as we had planned to do. The fact that non-economic damages (or pain & suffering) are equal to $250,000 for the decedent and $50,000 for each surviving person sickens me. My husband was in a burning building for an hour before it collapsed; that compared to the old woman who spilled coffee on her lap at McDonalds and got $10 million dollars for me seems utterly ridiculous. My husband will never see his children grow up and they will not remember him, except through pictures that I have. I have lost my best friend of 22 years because the airlines could not keep their planes secure and the Port Authority told people in the Tower 2 not to evacuate and to stay at their desks. That cost my husband his life. Economic calculations are being based on National statistics for potential loss of earnings instead of NY Stats. This can decrease the earnings up to 100%. There should not be a cap on the earnings of the victims. This can cost people a lot of money also. My husband was doing very well and the fund is not coming near to compensating him for his potential earnings. 2001 is not being factored in as an earnings year, but my husband was doing better this year than any other. It should be prorated in the calculation. There should not be any collateral offsets. We paid money into our life insurance and work paid into the pension. These things should not affect the award from the fund. With these offsets, our family is losing a considerable amount of money. I consider this a payout from the airlines because they were unprepared to protect their passengers and the people who were in the buildings that day. We should not have to subtract anything that we had in place if this was a normal death, which it wasn't. The government has set aside 5 billion dollars for the bailout of the airlines, but only 1.5 billion is going to the families. Our constitutional rights to sue have been limited and a challenge will take years to resolve. Thank you for your time in this extremely important matter. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-18 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 dojN002028.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. 2002-01-18