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. Thursday, January 10, 2002 8:16 PM Deduct the Pensions & Benefits Why shouldn't the firefighter's pensions and benefits be deducted from the federal payout? I mean come on...how much money do they need???...doesn't the NYFD families and NYPD families get an automatic $250,000 payment from the fed? Don't NYFD families get an automatic $10,000 off the bat from the widows & children fund? Not to mention that their families already get the death benefit of 100% salary virtually forever. And that's just for starters. Don't they have all that money that was collected just for their own "brothers" during all that massive fundraising just for themselves. Where did all that money go? I know for a fact that the NY Firefighters 9-11 disaster fund run by the IAFF raised over $90,000,000. That's another $250,000 for each firefighter. And they can still dip in to the Red Cross fund and other funds just like anyone else. That's a much better deal than any private sector victim will get. You know..for people who like to hold themselves out as being above chasing the almighty dollar for a line of work involving humble service, commitment and sacrifice for others they're doing a pretty good job of sounding like a bunch of whining babies. You know...people die all the time everyday..people that include other firefighters and police officers....and they won't get a fraction of the support these people have received already. The way the rules of this fund are currently set will at least make some sort of attempt to level the playing field for all the other families who don't enjoy all the money that their families have already received. I wishe the NYFD and other rescuers would stop making themselves out to be so poor. It's time to stop asking what's in it for me and just start being greatful for all the tax dollars they have already received. Tax dollars that if I were to be killed tomorrow by a terrorist my family would see none of. Sincerley, Individual Comment Jersey City, NJ September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-10 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 dojN001507.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. 2002-01-10