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 04, 2002 11:37 AM Compensation Package I am very disappointed with the Special Master's plan to distribute funds to the victims' families of the September 11th attack. This fund was established to compensate families as close to what they would have received if they were to go to a court to sue. I feel that the amount for pain and suffering is extremely low. In recent years a person sued McDonald's because they spilled a cup of tea on themselves and they were awarded over two million dollars. My husband was killed because he was not protected by the government, the airport security, the WTC building, and the Windows of the World restaurant. Also, because my husband made a very good salary, he is being discriminated against since they put a cap on earnings. They decide that he would have stopped work at a certain age when his father is 92 and still doing the same job my husband was. Why shouldn't we receive the salary he would have received? He was murdered and no one wants to take responsibility. On top of everything, they want to deduct what other benefits we receive. So because when I had three small children my husband bought life insurance so that if something happened to him I could still take care of my children at home, that amount now will be deducted. The government did not pay the premiums, my husband did. Even the one year of Social Security benefits my son will receive will be deducted, even though my husband will never receive any SS benefits even though he contributed to SS. Any benefits we received were because my husband worked and contributed to these agencies. But because we are collecting the benefits, we are penalized. My husband made a good salary and he is no longer here. I will not have my husband as a companion and I am middle aged with my children basically on their own. I want to provide my children with what their father would have given them. Based on this plan I have no alternative but to sue everyone. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-04 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 dojN001340.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. 2002-01-04