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. Friday, November 09, 2001 2:30 PM Victim Compensation Fund I have been a resident of lower Manhattan for nearly 12 years. I am a homeowner in Battery Park City, and a survivor of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center. I witnessed the tragedy unfold from my apartment window, and was evacuated in the aftermath of the WTC collapse. I left with nothing more than the clothes on my back and my beloved pets. Because of city and federal authorities, and the damage to my apartment, I had to live in a hotel for nearly a month. When I returned, my neighborhood was shut down with security checkpoints, there were no grocery stores open and no services (dry cleaners, etc.) available. Deliveries of food, etc., were not permitted. Although I had a car, if I removed it from the garage, I could not bring it back. Transportation (subways, buses) was almost non existent. Life was barely sustainable. I count my blessings that I escaped with my life, and that my home was still standing. I feel a great deal of compassion and sympathy to other victims who may have lost loved ones, friends, a job or a business. These victims should certainly be entitled to benefits from the Victim Compensation Fund. However, I do not fit into any of these categories, and I am victim, too. I will have to live with (literally) the repercussions of the attack for years. This has impacted my property value and quality of life. Many of the retail establishments who supported the residents of my neighborhood were destroyed or have gone out of business. Services are harder to obtain, and are more expensive because it is so difficult to get around. Although I am certain that the commercial and business core of lower Manhattan will be rebuilt, it will take years, and the residents of lower Manhattan are the ones who will live with it everyday. Therefore, I urge you to consider making the residents of or homeowners in lower Manhattan eligible to receive benefits from the Victim Compensation Fund. Excluding us would make this tragedy even uglier and painful. Thank you. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-09 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 dojW000290.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. 2001-11-09