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, March 22, 2002 9:30 AM Unjustified Hello. I am very disturbed that people are being compensated monetarily for loss of life in New York. People lose their lives from terrible acts or accidents daily. It is not the role of the government to find the family of each of these people and pay them for this unfortunate circumstance. Financial compensation for deaths should occur in cases where someone is at fault or blame can be placed on an individual or group, as a deterent for others who might commit a similar act, but in this case, how can the american government or the american people be faulted for what happened? It was simply a terrible and unfortunate act. By compensating family members, we are essentially taking responsibility for the act in the same way an airline takes responsibility for faulty equipment that leads to a crash. The news is full of comments from angry family members of victims who ask how the life of their loved ones can only be worth a few hundred thousand dollars and that they should receive more. I find it sickening that they use this argument because they are trivializing the life that they are trying to place value upon. I do believe that financial support is necessary for families that have lost a major income provider, but arbitrarily giving each family a baseline amount of money is without a logical foundation and is inappropriate. Lastly, if this plan is brought to fruition, how can one define the parameters of a "family"? For example, whether we agree with gay relationships or not, I think a life partner of a victim is more entitled to the benefits from September 11th than is a family member who had not spoken to the deceased in years. There will be many family members who will benefit from this compensation that were much less emotionally connected to the victim than many gay partners of victims. Thank you for taking the time to read this. I hope you realize that victim compensation is innapropriate and will encounter many circumstances where people who did not truly love a victim benefit from this and others who were emotionally bound to victims are left out. Individual Comment MD September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-22 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 dojR002619.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. 2002-03-22