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. Sunday, January 13, 2002 9:25 PM Concerns over victim compension fund Dear Mr. Kenneth Feinberg: I am &nbsp, sister to &nbsp, whose husband died evacuating people from the south tower of the World Trade Center. I called her at school as she is a third grade teacher and told her I had just heard while at work that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. Her son, &nbsp, had the opportunity to call his father and tell him to get out of the building. He replied to him that he was evacauting people and then would leave the building He was not a firefighter or police officer but a &nbsp of the World Trade Center. I will never forget the pain, sorrow or suffering that I witnessed in their eyes in the weeks to come. His remains have still not been found. I feel the format and formulas that have been developed to compensate or make whole this family will be and others like them inadequate. He is one of the higher wage earners and therefore the way it presently stands, his family will be given little or nothing from the victims compensation fund. This family deserves more than that. If &nbsp had died some other wrongful death, his family would have allowed much more. Life insurance benefits, workers compensation and retirement accounts would not be affected. I suggest that further consideration be given to increasing the non-economic loss or eliminate the collateral sources from the award. I also feel that the amount of the award should be known prior to waiving any rights to sue the airlines or anyone else deemed responsible. I don't think anyone should make a decision not knowing the full impact of that decision. Furthermore it is my understanding that the government has rights to subrogate against the persons responsible. So the government may be able to be reimbursed for any monies paid to the victims families. I'd also like you to know that &nbsp was an outstanding citizen in his community, always helping in the time of need, along with my sister &nbsp. This family of five deserves better than this. Thanks for you time and energy in regard to this matter. I do hope that you'll reconsider, Under the present arrangement, it forces families to enter into litigation against any and all responsible. Sincerely, Individual Comment &nbsp September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-13 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 dojN001557.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. 2002-01-13