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. Sunday, January 20, 2002 11:07 AM September 11th Federal Fund Mr. Feinberg/ Kenneth L. Zwick, Director Office of Management Programs, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice Main Building, Room 3140, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20530 SUBJECT: 11 SEP VICTIM COMPENSATION FUND Sirs: I'm writing under the assumption you are committed to respecting the concerns of every family. I refer your to the encouraging material you published explaining the intent of this fund and ponder these extracts: "Unprecedented expression of compassion on the part of the American people" As one of the seriously wounded survivors of the terrorist-related attack on the Pentagon, I'm so sorry that this relief didn't start with the Oklahoma City victims, the victims of the flood in Houston in June, 2001 and others. It is misleading to the taxpayer that the average family will receive $1.6 million dollars or be made rich from our taxpayer funds when most of the families in our areas will receive nothing! I hope that the relief becomes retroactive to them and their representatives take that honorable lead. I don't know one of those victims however I would like to share, and for now just help locally. From 11 Sep 01, one wounded survivor received reimbursements, from personal items destroyed, and made initial repayments to caretakers, then quietly donated the remainder to a local widow that lost her husband suddenly to cancer and was left with no resources to bury him Don't think the worst of the victims and start TRUSTING that they will "do unto others" with exponential acts of kindness, in the memory of the American people. This is healing the communities as well. "objectives: (to provide fair, predictable and consistent compensation to the victims of September 11 and their familiesâ?¦.." As a seriously wounded survivor I have two simpler and obvious distinctions for any presumed award for non-economic loss; those that were in the crash site and those that sat safely on the bench. The experience is imponderable yet you blindly penalize the survivors. I invite you to ponder how to stay the course and respect the demonstrable risk of those survivors that crawled away from the plane's dead bodies that rested in the burning/ collapsing conference room, with the landing gear within sight. You don't need the physical wound to stick fingers into (evidence), it is directly verifiable to the plane's destructive path though Wedge 1 of the Pentagon and surviving witnesses. There may be comparable places at the World Trade Center. Don't short change those few surviving souls, trapped in a collapsing inferno building, from a presumed award that will help them discreetly find their own private resolutions for their families, sanity, support networks and jobs to "provide them with a strong economic foundation from which to rebuild their lives". Being the head of household and sole provider for my family, it is a challenge to do my part for my family. Some of the seriously wounded believe it would have been easier it they didn't come out injured and had just died. I respect that the OK City victims are still going through counseling and the government continues to help buy-out their homes. Personal experience has proven that Worker's Compensation and insurance will wear them down with "red tape" requiring them to constantly prove their need for labor rejected prescriptions and to relive the terrors of 11 Sep 01â?¦, while everyone else sleeps. "Advance Benefits in the case of severely injured individuals who required hospitalization for one week or more." Why did you segregate "severely injured individuals" under 7 days? Why weren't you consistent with severely injured individuals supported by certified contemporaneous medical records? Surely the hospitals weren't polled to single out the few severely injured individuals that escaped from the hospital/media setting before 7 days? "In evaluating claims of disability, the Special Master willâ?¦. make a determination regarding whether the claimant is capable of performing his or her usual profession in light of injuries" With all due respect, these individuals will never perform up to their "usual profession" or "usual daily activities" they are forever changed, consider it "replacement services loss" for their families. Bless you Mr. Feinberg and your staff, for admitting you don't understand military retirements and that the tragic experience is imponderable. Stick to your resolution for fairness, as you ponder the imponderable. Rest with the dignity that the presumed award for non-economic loss is also appropriate for survivors/victims witnessed in the destructive geographic path. Don't fallback on a prejudiced, mortal, biased determination trying to quantify the imponderable. "CRIME VICTIM'S BILL OF RIGHTS "1. The right to be treated with fairness and with respect for the victim's dignity and privacy" Please consider that your display of names "List of Claimants" listed on your web site violates the victim's privacy. Respectfully, Individual Comment Washington, D.C. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-20 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 dojN002112.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. 2002-01-20