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. Kenneth L. Zwick Director of Office of Management Programs, Civil Division 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20330 February 7, 2002 Dear Mr. Zwick I am the year old son of , a victim of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. At the time of the attacks, my father was an employee of . I understand that there is currently a proposal to allow common law spouses to collect compensation from the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001. I am writing to voice my opposition to those proposed changes. I oppose the proposed changes for two reasons. First, while marriage is a big step, it is a simple procedure. That a legal marriage did not occur should suggest that at least one of the two did not want to get married. My second reason for opposing this is that my father lived for his children. Should this woman be able to collect as a "wife" that would significantly reduce the compensation my father's children would receive. I know in my heart that my father would not want his children to suffer further. Please do what is best for the children of the victims of this painful event. Keep in mind that we can never replace our father or mother, sister or brother, son or daughter. But we can change husbands or wives or people we chose to live with and consciously decide not to marry. Thank you Individual Comment Brooklyn, NY September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-02-07 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 dojP000503.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. 2002-02-07