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, November 09, 2001 12:14 PM Comments regarding Compensation for families I lost my brother in the WTC attacks. Not only that, I witnessed the entire thing. Traumatized is a mild word describing my state. Let me list the things wrong with the Bill being considered by our Congress. First of all, is there any one in our Congress who lost someone to this hideous event? If not, they are not qualified for the job. So which Marshall is qualified? Since there is no other way the families can seek justice except by filing lawsuits and making the negligable parties pay monetary, that is what we, as Americans should have the right to. 1) How can the government say that there is one person who represents the family? There are many people suffering from this loss, not just a spouse, but how about their children and their parents and siblings? I personally don't want a red cent, but I want my sister-in-law and my parents to get what they deserve! 2) How can the government say that this one representative must sign an agreement to accept a settlement before even knowing what it is, and at the same time, giving up her and the entire family's right to sue? What genius decided that? Logically, they should be told what the settlement is at the time, and then she can choose to accept it or not? What's with game playing? The families aren't going through enough, so our government has to torture us more? Is that how it works in this country? 3) Is my mother and father not entitled to sue (for reasons of attaining revenge and justice, not to get rich) for their anquish of losing a son? 4) Since I, and millions of Americans fully understand that this attack was the fault of our U.S. government, the government should do what is right by the families so we can feel some sort of justice is done. Unfortunately, the way to seek revenge and justice is through making the responsible party pay in terms of money, since we cannot send someone to jail or punish those responsible in any way. In other words, we are helpless against a GIANT beaurocratic system that we have no control over. How do you think that feels? I'll tell you why people believe this is the fault of our government. The reasons are actually obvious but I'll spell them out anyway. a) Our CIA were asleep at the wheel. Where were they? b) Our government was so concerned about who Bill Clinton's affairs, that no one paid any attention to Homeland Security. Where was everyone? Why were people allowed to walk onto our planes with knives? Why are our airport workers who have the MOST important job as far as security goes, receiving minimum wage and have criminal records? c) Where were our intelligence overseas tracking these terrorists before? Or did we not know that al-Queda wasn't planning on an attack on Americans. The list goes on and on and truth is I'm already mentally exhausted. However, I, along with 5000 other families will muster up the energy to fight. We, the "lucky" ones, who have to endure this pain forever, will have to fight in some way, whether it's through the media or other ways. We will be heard. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-09 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 dojW000286.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. 2001-11-09