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. Monday, January 21, 2002 6:07 PM Federal Victims Compensation Program Obviously, changes must be made to the Federal Victims Compensation Program so that the families of the 911 heroes are properly compensated by the government. The complete and total amount allocated by Congress must be given to the families. Anything less is a complete and total disgrace. It's is obvious to all sane people that the victims families have beyond any shadow of a doubt the right to sue many of the parties involved with the 911 disaster. (see paragraphs below). And, furthermore, never in the history of the U.S. has a person with a legitimate cause to sue been told that they cannot receive compensation because they have other means such as life insurance and pension funds I know that you cannot name one single case like this in the history of the U.S. If you apply these rules to the victims' families, not only is it a disgrace, but then the exact same rules must apply to all plaintiffs in the future. Do I have to spell it out -- if you do not change the rules and give the money to the victims' families, then every single individual and corporation with a legitimate case who also has "means" must not ever receive a "red cent" from any ligiation in the future. Listed here are the parties that should be sued because of the 911 disaster. Here's the first one. Can the government explain how in the world the governor of Massachusettes had the audicity to appoint his former chauffer to head security at Logan Airport in Boston? When I heard this on TV, I began to fell like I was living in the "twilight zone." It's it obvous to Congress that the governor must be fired and put behind bars as he has the blood of the victims on his hands. How dare he appoint his former chauffer to head security at Logan when the chauffer had "zippo" experience. Certainly there can be no doubt that Logan Airport and the governor should be sued. They are guilty. Secondly, the airlines and the FAA have proved that they don't have a clue as to how to run airports. The fact that the cockpit doors were not locked it a sin. I expected to hear that top executives at the FAA and airlines were fired immediately the day of the disaster. I am appalled that this has not been the case. Certainly, unless every cent allocated by Congress is given to the victims' families, they have an extremly strong case against both of these parties. Thirdly, where was security at the WTC on 911? I was watching TV with my co-workers and we saw the first WTC Tower in flames. Immediately, everyone said this must be terrorism. Why weren't people evacuated immediatley. Was security too stupid that it had to be spelled out for them with the second plane going into the other WTC Tower. Obviously, this building should have had one of the most up-to-date evacuation plans; however, it appears obvious that it had no plan whatsoever!!! Here's my last point. My cousin, a fireman, died at the 911 disaster. How do you think I felt and his family felt when we read in the newspapers and heard on TV that the fireman's radios were not working. Do you realize that the rescue workers were ordered out of the WTC Towers? However, the firemens' radios weren't working. Certainly, the City of NY should not try to cut expenses by providing substandard radios to its rescue workers. The City of NY is another party that quite frankly deserves to be sued. Again, you must give the victims' families the money that they are entitled to. Friends and families of the 911 heroes are a united and growing group who fully intend to stay united and fight for what is the right and proper conduct by government. Government officials work for the people. Don't forget that. If you do, we won't forget on election day. Also, I'd like to know what the government is doing about awarding the Congressional Medal of Honor to the 911 Heros. There was much talk about this award in September, what is happending? Why haven't we heard more about it? Certainly the Award would help explain to the children who lost their parents what heroes their parents were. Individual Comment Forest Hills, NY September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-21 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 dojN001925.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. 2002-01-21