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. Wednesday, February 06, 2002 3:25 PM Equitable distribution I believe the Victim Compensation Fund should be awarded on the premise that "each life has equal value." The United States represents that philosophy to the world and it is the basis of many domestic philosophical and pragmatic considerations. Instead, the Congress turned to a program with compensation based on established legal precedents in cases of loss of life in accidents, etc., using income guidelines. I think it was an expedient decision that did not address the specific subject of compensation for the families of victims of foreign or domestic terrorism. This compensation program will be a model that will be used if there are future terrorist events and we should be most careful in the design. The families of the victims of the terrorist attack in Oklahoma were not compensated in this way, nor were victims of other terrorist attacks that affected a smaller number of individuals. Why not? What makes 9/11 different from other terrorist attacks and loss of life - other than the numbers involved and the painfully obvious escalated emotional pain? I further believe the "each life has equal value" formula is the most equitable because the present compensation plan is likely flawed in assumptions of future earnings, ignoring the following considerations (only a few examples): 1. There is no quarantee a victim would have continued to earn extraordinary income or modest income for the rest of his/her lives. 2. 50% of marriages end in divorce. 3. Lower paid victims may have been on the edge of a higher income because of furthering their education, becoming doctors or lawyers or other professionals, entrepreneurship, outstanding performances in the arts or entertainment areas. Thank you very much for consideration of these comments. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-02-06 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 dojP000426.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. 2002-02-06