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, November 06, 2001 12:58 PM Attention: Attorney General John Ashcroft RE: September 11 Victim Compensation Fund Dear Attorney General John Ashcroft and DOJ Staff Although every patriotic American like me wants to help the victims of this tragedy we cannot see how unlimited and uncapped funding is a good idea. We have already made huge donations to organizations and funds for the victims and their families. Without limits and a cap, people will be demanding much more than "their fair share". This is mine, yours, and every American's tax money. Would we have been so generous helping our fellow Americans if we had known that our tax money would also be diverted to helping the same people again? Getting paid double for their loss isn't the American way. Who is to say that any person's loss is not worth $10,000,000? Without limits and very specific rules I fear that this fund will become a way for many people to get more money than they ever imagined, and live only in the past, instead of moving forward with their lives. This is almost welfare for a specific few people. As Americans we have already done our part in our donations. I for one will not even deduct my donation amounts from my taxes. But please, let us not allow boundless funds to the victims in addition to other funds they may already receive. Individual Comment East Stroudsburg, PA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-06 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 dojW000068.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. 2001-11-06