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. Wednesday, November 14, 2001 5:40 PM Determining "Compensation" to be paid to "Eligible Individuals" under the Sept. 11th Victim Compensation Fund 2001 I strongly urge separate calculation of compensation for "non-economic loss" and "economic loss." In the case of non-economic loss, all eligible individuals should be compensated in the same amount since there is no reasonable way to calculate differences in such issues as emotional pain, suffering, mental anguish, loss of society, companionship and consortium. Economic loss on the other hand can be calculated and should be offset by any charitable grants received from any other source which were made for the same purpose as the Sept. 11th Victim Compensation Fund 2001. Life and accident insurance proceeds SHOULD NOT be used to reduce compensation for economic or non-economic loss. This argument is based on the premise that life insurance is an asset, generally includable in the victim's taxable estate, which should no more be counted in calculating a decedent's compensation than other assets owned by the victim, such as real estate and bank accounts. Furthermore, to reduce a decedent's compensation by the value of life insurance proceeds is to penalize the decedent for the foresight, hard work and sacrifice made by the victim to provide this benefit for his/her heirs. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-14 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 dojW000349.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. 2001-11-14