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. Sunday, November 25, 2001 12:09 AM Comments Dear Mr Zwick, My name is , my husband was killed while at work at on September 11. Here are some comments that I have concerning this fund. Topic 1 & 2 There need to be definitive ways to determine economic and non-economic loss. Economic loss will vary according to job, age and potential. Noneconomic loss is very difficult to determine. Life is hard to put a price on. Marriage, children all increase that value since there are more people intermingled with that life. What are collateral sources of compensation? Life insurance, pension plans, 401K...should be irrelevant to these claims. These people worked hard for this money and/or paid into these things while they worked. The airlines should not get off paying out any money to the families. They were ultimately responsible for these deaths and these monies should not be included for any reason. This money was due them if they died a normal death (not one via a hijacked plane crashing into their workplace). The airlines need to take responsibility. Topic 3 If a claim is improperly filed, a person should be able to refile and their time should be reset. I also believe that a person should be able to appeal a claim if they don't believe they got their due. Topic 4 Proceedings should be held in a convenient location, possibly in each county. Office locations for assistance should also be available by county and toll free help lines would be necessary. A letter should be sent out to each family affected informing them of what needs to be done. Fees should be limited for any professionals hired by a claimant. Topic 6 Charity money should be excluded as should life insurance, pensions, SS, and workers compensation. Thank you for your time, Individual Comment Tuckahoe, NY September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-25 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 dojW000524.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. 2001-11-25