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. Tuesday, January 22, 2002 6:39 PM Compensation Act Hello, I'd like to voice my opinion on this and say that I do NOT agree with this act at all. It is not the taxpayers duty to provide compensation when there's nobody left to sue. Now I respect the fact that the Airlines will go under if they had to provide the $$$ for these families and the market can't take them going out of business. But it is not right to take the taxpayers money and award it to the families of this horrible disaster. With the potential of 1.6 million dollars as an average, I feel it is just way over the top. I've been working for 16 years and I haven't even earned $80,000 yet. Now i'm married and am currently furthering my education with a scholarship i won in a competition. My wife is the only one with an income and believe me when i say that we watch every dime closley. We simply cannot afford this. Especially when they say that this is only the beginning. Will we continue to make victims millionaire's over night? And how about the victims at the Oklahoma bombing or the Embassies or even the father that get's shot down in Compton? What of them and their's? Will we always be liable? Me? I believe that there are other options available to compensate them with. The siezed assets of all of theterrorist organizations would be one way. Where's all of that money? How about all the charities? Where's all of that money? How about the airlines insurance companies because after all it is their fault for allowing the terrorists to get through their security gates? Where's that money? Let's face it. There is nothing in the constitution that guarantees that as american citizens and travelers to America, that they will be protected and secure against harm. And it most certainly does not read that in the case of such a disaster that the American citizens will make them millionaires. I can't believe the people we elect to come up with this crap and spoon feed it to us like we're a bunch of 2 year olds. We need to hold the countries and the financial orginazitions who harbored and supported the terrorist organisations responsible and make them compensate the families for this horrible situation. Just like Germany is doing for what happened there, and that was almost 60 years ago. Sincerley, Broke!!!! Individual Comment 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 dojN002344.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