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. Tuesday, January 22, 2002 9:54 AM victim's compensation plan Dear Mr. Feinberg, This letter is to inform you that I am the wife of a man who died in the terrorist attack on our nation on September 11, 2001. When I first heard about the Victim's Compensation Fund, I felt great relief. It seemed to be a reasonable and fair way to help the families avoid litigation and protect the airlines. Mr Feinberg, this fund will virtually exclude me and my children. My husband and I planned for our future and took care to protect ourselves. We bought Life Insurance and paid high premiums for that insurance. My husband was vested and paid into a pension. We will be penalized for careful and responsible fiscal planning by having those amounts off-set any award (strange term) that we might have received. This would not be allowed in a court of law. I realize that this component of the fund was voted in by congress but it is flawed. That is just one small area of the fund that is defective. I refer you to the letter sent to you on 1/14/02 by my Congressman, Marty Meehan, for a full text of the inadequacies of this fund. Perhaps I am not fully understanding the purpose of the fund. My husband suffered a wrongful death, most likely in hand-to-hand combat with terrorists who . , I cannot even imagine the horror of that situation. I do not know when I will be able to step on an aircraft again knowing that to be the place where my good husband was murdered. He will not finish his last 10 years of employment with so there is still a loss of income and his pension was reduced by half of what it would have accrued. Because of these events, I cannot return to my job as a for for quite some time. Because of the way this fund is set up, I will receive basically the same benefits I would have received if my husband had died in a car crash. However, his death was certainly very different than a car crash. Those facts simply address some of the financial aspects of my life and do not even touch on the personal loss of my family. My husband, , was a victim of terrorism. I decided early on that I would stand proud as an American and not allow those heinous deeds to make me a victim also. The terrorists could not do that to me. Please do not allow my own government and the DOJ to succeed where the terrorists failed. The rules of the Victim's Compensation Fund need serious adjustment in order to fulfill the intent of Congress. Sincerely, Individual Comment Dracut, MA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-22 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 dojN002224.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. 2002-01-22