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 08, 2002 4:12 PM Setting Bad Precedents To Whom it May Concern, While the objective of this compensation plan may be honorable, I feel the government is setting two very precarious precedents with this action in present form: - By basing compensation on income, the government is inherently valuing some lives higher than others. This is a very slippery slope, and flies in the face of our founding fathers, who held "all men equal". While it is a fact of life in a capitalist society that those of financial means are treated with higher regard than those of lesser means, the government should not validate this consequence. It makes much more sense to give a straight amount as is given for non-economic losses. - By setting up taxpayer funds to directly compensate victims of this tragedy, the government is now opening up a Pandora's box for compensation to victims of any other loss of life due to terrorist activity, school shooting, war, natural disaster, etc. in the future or even in the past. Where is the line drawn? Sincerely, Individual Comment Cary NC September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-08 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 dojN001452.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. 2002-01-08