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, February 05, 2002 12:53 PM Speech at American Insurance Association Dear Mr. Feinberg: I heard part of your speech at the American Insurance Association on C-SPAN. I wish to say that I was very impressed with your presentation, your knowledge of the subject, and your awareness of the problems in dealing with such a difficult issue. When I heard that Congress was going to create a special master, I was quite concerned. I felt that there was an inherent injustice in that some victims of terrorism (e.g., Oklahoma City bombing; the two US embassies in Africa; Americans overseas, etc.) had received little or no compensation from the government, while the victims of the 9/11 treasury were going to be the beneficiaries of governmental largesse. I also had concerns about what type of precedent was being sent. For instance, there are statements by well known government officials stating that our enemies will use weapons of mass destruction, if they gain access to them. These weapons, as you know, can cause far greater damage than that which occurred on 9/11. It is easily feasible to imagine that 100 or a 1,000 times as many people may be killed in such an attack. Will all those individuals be entitled to compensation from the government? Will they be entitled to equal desserts? After hearing you speak, I am a little bit more encouraged that someone has at least spent some time thinking about these matters. I realize that you were put in an impossible situation and have done the best you could. I hope that you might be able to spend a very small part of the money appropriated by Congress to sponsor some studies (by historians, religious thinkers, etc.) about what should this nation's and this government's response be to future events of mass destruction. While this is certainly an unpleasant subject, I think we have been forewarned and thus ought to be prepared to deal with the unthinkable. Once again congratulations on your work. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-02-05 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 dojP000401.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. 2002-02-05