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, December 21, 2001 3:01 PM Comments Regarding the Victim Compensation Fund To Whom it May Concern: I would like to comment on my personal feelings in regard to the recently publicized Victim Compensation Fund. In general I am appalled that the Federal Government would provide any compensation to these victims unless the United States government itself is legally liable and directly responsible for their deaths or injuries. I fail to see why the deaths of a group of people who are distinguished merely by being at work in an attacked building merits such compensation. The people who deserve compensation or reward are those who knowingly put their lives at risk to aid those who were attacked. Assuming that the families of these victims are somehow more worthy of compensation than anyone else in the country who has had a family member murdered, I fail to comprehend why those who had the foresight and personal responsibility to provide life insurance for their families against such an occurrence should be punished by not receiving an equivalent amount of "compensation" as those who could not or would not be bothered to do so themselves. The compensation that these families are receiving is our troops and resources are being put into action to find and punish those who are responsible for the deaths. None of this should in any way diminish the extent of the outrage or sadness for the acts which cost so many their lives. However, by paying off the families, the United States government seems to be saying that they are responsible somehow for the loss. Sincerely, Individual Comment Atlanta, GA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-21 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 dojN000545.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. 2001-12-21