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. Monday, January 28, 2002 6:37 PM Victim Compensation I want to voice my support for a compensation plan that subtracts life insurance benefits from the overall compensation provided. The purpose of the money should not be to compensate people for their loss, but rather to mitigate the need created by their loss. If the victims want to be compensated directly for their loss, they should go after the same people that victims of drive-by shootings and drunk drivers go after - the people who actually perpetrated the crime. It has never been the responsibility or purpose of the U.S. government to compensate individuals for the harm they suffer at the hands of other individuals or at the hands of mother nature. Already, the fact that the U.S. government is doing this for the bombing victims of the World Trade Center is suggesting that their victimhood is somehow more important than the victimhood of others (including all the families of Kenyans and Tanzinians in the African embassy bombings who didn't get a dime). The amount of compensation for each victim should be done along principles similar to those used by FEMA to help people out after a natural disaster - what was the actual loss that wasn't covered by insurance. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-28 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 dojP000249.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. 2002-01-28