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, January 18, 2002 11:37 AM a NYer's comment I am glad to know that I can post my comment here since it would be fruitless to express a dissent through my Congressional delegatio--Maloney, Clinton and Schumer. I am a New York resident/voter who was witness to the attack. Three friends of my family were killed. My local fire house lost 9 firemen. My city bears open wounds. I saved the NYT's two-page photo spread of the lost firemen and look at it every night before bed to remind myself that souls, not numbers, are remembered. I also feel that the victims' families' complaints are entirely inappropriate, if not greedy. As others have noted, other victims of recent terrorist attacks have not received the incessant publicity or compensation they have. (And the Pentagon dead are completely forgotten in this mess.) I worry that the legislation behind your fund will set a unattainable standard for compensation awards for all future victims. Just to give an example, how will the government compensate the victims of a biological attack, or other large-scale disaster? There is no way on earth that we citizens can ever fully compensate the victims' families. Their loss is unimaginable, but there must be limits on monetary damages. The generosity of this nation has been one of the most remarkable aftereffects of this tragedy. I myself have contributed blood, money, personal counseling, participation in fund-raising efforts, and patronage of small businesses in the financial district. I am not unique in these efforts. But I am tapped out, especially for sympathy, with this saga of "victimhood." I have not yet seen a comprehensive account of the total monies available to survivors. I believe that your fund does not include public and private efforts to compensate firemen, police or Port Authority officials, or private efforts by affected firms to compensate their employees' families. If this is correct, you would provide a public service by noting this. Perhaps a news service will follow up. I think you will find that increasing numbers of Americans share my fed-up feelings. The families have become just another special interest group and politicians are pandering to them, as usual. Disapproval is not a politically correct opinion among other thought-leaders, so few are willing to express this viewpoint publicly. Nonetheless and regrettably, dissent is growing among individuals with no spokesmen It's a very sour closure for a great national and personal tragedy. I'm very glad to know your web site has provided a forum to express my opinion. Thank you for your efforts to do the best you can, for all of us. Individual Comment Manhattan September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-18 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 dojN001984.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. 2002-01-18