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. Saturday, February 02, 2002 11:27 PM Our Heroes Deserve More Than A Broken Promise Our Heroes Deserve More Than A Broken Promise If we are bringing justice to the terrorist of Afghanistan, why can't we bring justice to our heroes, the victims and their families of the September 11th tragedy? Why didn't our heroes receive adequate workers' compensation benefits in the first place? It is both unjust and demeaning for our heroes to again be victimized by an inadequate workers' compensation program that requires their families to have to rely upon the goodness of the American people's "cookie sales" and a haphazard charitable distribution program. Adding insult to injury are the flawed regulations that fill in the details to the Federal government's unbalanced program to insulate both the aviation and insurance industry from liability. The recent rally at the Park Avenue Armory in NYC supported the WTC United Family Group www.wtcunitedfamilygroup.org revealed the staggering amount of misinformation being disseminated concerning benefits available to our heroes of September 11th. &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp , lost his brother in the terrorist attack of September 11th Speaker after speaker highlighted the failure of the system to adequately compensate the victims and their families. NY Attorney General Elliot Spitzer declared the Federal compensation program to be "wrong and unfair." "It is unfair to give up the right to sue without a hearing." He denounced the regulations that establish barriers to recovery based upon timely medical treatment and limitations allowing deduction of charitable benefits under the "collateral source". NY Governor Pataki, who received 7 standing ovations, as he denounced the Federal program as "terrible" and declared that "the regulations make no sense" and that they "do not do justice." As the world focuses upon the ruins of the collapsed buildings in NY, it also focuses upon the failure of the workers' compensation system to meet the needs of the victims. The massive spotlights on ground zero not only reveal the wreckage of September 11th but also the broken promise of adequate compensation to the heroes and their families. If trial lawyers really care, they would support a program to repair the broken promise. Individual Comment Wayne NJ September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-02-02 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 dojP000362.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. 2002-02-02