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 11:01 AM comments on plan Mr. Feinberg, My mother, &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp, was a passenger on American Airlines flight 11. She was a happy, healthy 72 year old woman with a brother, five grown children and ten grandchildren. She survived two bouts with breast cancer and also losing her husband at age 54 to cancer. She devoted most of her last 25 years to working with charitable organizations and volunteering. She was given a plaque by the Governor of Massachusetts upon her retirement as the&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp of the &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp, &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp organization. When she died, she was looking forward to getting home to California where she had a new, active and fulfilling life - and where she was still volunteering to help the less fortunate. I believe that the airlines' failure to fortify the cockpit doors, even after ordered to by the federal government, enabled the highjackers to carry out their plan to take control of the aircraft. In my mind, this failure makes the airlines directly responsible for my mother's murder. I understand that the purpose of the compensation plan is to offer the victims' families an alternative to filing lawsuits against the airlines - in essence a settlement offer. Therefore, I object to families having to agree to a settlement offer and signing away the right to sue before the amount of the offer is determined. I object to life insurance payouts being deducted from any settlement award. Insurance was paid for and provided by the victims and should have no bearing on settlement amounts. I also believe all victims should be treated equally with all families who agree not to sue the airlines being given equal amounts. To attempt to predict the future lives of the victims, and thus assign different values to the lives of the victims is bound to be inaccurate. Let's assume all of those 3000 unfortunate people suffered equally and that all of their families are now suffering equally. To treat everyone equally regarding a settlement offer is much simpler and shows no disrespect to any of the victims by attaching different values to their lives. The compensation plan is not charity, it's the government's attempt to protect the airlines from the victims families by making a settlement offer that's more attractive than going to court. The fact that the compensation plan exists makes me think that the government knows the airlines are responsible and fears a catastrophe if the 3000 families all sued. Since the aim is to placate the families, I request that equal amounts be offered to all. Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposed plan. Individual Comment Toronto, Ontario Canada 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 dojN001978.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