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, February 03, 2002 2:04 PM VictimComp I find this a very hard subject to address. My best friend was killed in the WTC and I established a foundation for the education of the children which has been very successful. So one side of me wants everything that the families can attain. The other side of me speaks to logic and fair thinking. I have no problem with the private charities giving millions of dollars to every single family! In fact I believe these charities are beginning to get there act together and the focus should be to get all these charities to distribute the monies. People who gave monies here expected the families to receive every cent. I believe our efforts should be in getting it distributed! I also agree that Social Security, Workmens Comp etc. Should be made available to everyone. I think the companies themselves including the insurances should be looked at and made sure all benefits are being paid and nobody is getting caught up in semantics to deny benefits.( i.e act of war or not for Life Insururers). The waving of income taxes for families was also a good thing. Where I begin to have my doubts is when the Government begins to give out compensation to victims. I guess if they get it I say God Bless them take the money. But as a citizen I have to look at the total picture of the precedent we are setting. This was indeed a horendous act of unimaginable proportions but what makes these victims any different from Pan Am 103, or Oklahoma City or The Uss Cole or the Anthrax attack or for that matter God forbid another attack of even bigger consequences. Where will we have to draw the line and what is fair? Will the Government have to compensate everyone killed in this war? I just think this should be left up to the private sector to work out . Did the British or French compensate all victims killed in WWII by the bombings by Germany. I just think we have to watch out the example we set for the future. As much as everyone wants to place the blame for this , it was almost an unimaginable event that no one could have totally expected or planned for the way we lived pre 9/11. I know I may sound like I am talking out of both sides of my mouth but this is the way I feel. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-02-03 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 dojP000369.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. 2002-02-03