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. January 07, 2002 Mr. Kenneth L. Zwick, Director , Office of Management Programs, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Main Building, Room 3140, 950 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20530 Re : Comments on the interim rule Dear Mr. Kenneth L. Zwick, On January 4, 2002 New York City Official said 2,885 vicktims confirmed dead or missing in the World Trade Center. Fortunately , this number is lot less than the 6,300 victims what the city official announced at the beginning of the incident. Now it is the time to consider about more compensate to the September 11 Victims Famies than presumed award plan on the interim rule made before. * On the Issue of Collateral Sources. Life Insurance proceeds should not be deducted from Award. According to interim rule, It makes no sence that the more a person plan ahead, the more one gets disadvantages. (decuction from award.) If life insurance proceeds should offset from award at the worst, it should minimiaze to the certain percentage from one gets total award. For example, it should note that life insurance offset should no more than 5%, or 10% from one's total awards. * On the Issue of Civill Actions to recover individual Collateral Sources. I believe that it is our Government's duty to protect poor powerless victim families against powerful huge insurance company's interests. It is obvious that only few of the victim familes could stand to costly, time spending civill action to recover their insurance money against economicaly and politicaly powewful, huge insurance company. * On the presumed Economic and None-Economic Loss Tables There are big award diference between Married Decedent with no Dependent Children and Single Decedent with no Dependent Children. For example, supose the victim age 35 and income $70,000.00 On the chart Married Decedent with no Dependent Child , Claimant gets $1,468,256.00 and On the Chart Single Decedent with no Dependent Child gets $803,956.00. What a big award differance ! $664,300.00. There is only differance Married and not Married. Why the person gets more such a big award than Sinlge Decedent only because the fact the person got Married? There is great possibility that Married Decedent's spouse can marry again in later date and the person could get lost completely decedent's memory in his or her new life. but Single decedent's next keen could have suffered for missing their loved ones until they draw their last breath in this world. I strongly believe this is totally not fair. The award differencial should be narrowed less than « on present chart between Married Decedent and single Decedent with no Dependent Child Chart. For a Married Decedent with no Dependent Child Chart, the compensation table should be decreased and the big increase needed for a Single Dedent with no child table. *On the Issue of Non-Economic Loss (Pain and Suffering) That $250,000 figure is simply too low. * Adopting existing Federal Programs (Military Personal and Public Safety Beneffit Program ) The regulation's adoption this incidence to existing federal programs by Public Safety Officers who are killed while on duty , or members of our Military who are killed in the line of duty while serving our nation is not acceptable and totlly inappropriate in this September 11 Terrorist Attacks Case. In general, Public Safety Officers or Military Personal recognize their job invlove risks and danger when they execute on their job. but this September 11 Terrorist Attacks Case, most victims are ordinary intellectual citizens. They did'n know and feel any danger or risks of their lives when they were there in World Trade Center for work ahead untill they got attacked by the terrorists. I like to suggest strongly that the regulation set a "special" presumed award for economic & non- economic loss tables in great favor to the September 11 Victims Family instead adopting under existing 38 U.S.C. & 1967 (Millitary Personnel ): 42 U.S.C. & 3796 (Public Safety Officers Benefit Program) Needless to say, This September 11 Terrorist Attacks is not only our nation's tragedy but whole wide world's tragedy. Whether our Nation rise or falls as the World Trade Center Collapse by the terrorist Attacks largely depend upon how well we America deal with such tragedy. Treat this historic September 11 Victims Families well and compensate them enough to heal their great losss in emotionary and economicaly by set up a "Special Rule." Whole world watches us ! From Victims next keen, Individual Comment Silver Spring, M.D. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-07 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 dojN002643.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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