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. Tuesday, November 27, 2001 2:34 PM Comments This is an electronic version of comments that were faxed to you previously. I am resending them via email per the direction of Kenneth Zwick, for the convenience of the Department of Justice. Thank you for your consideration. * * * * * November 26, 2001 Mr. Kenneth L. Zwick Director, Office of Management Programs Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice Main Building, Room 3140 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20530 Subject: Comments to Notice of Inquiry and Advance Notice of Rulemaking for September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001. Dear Mr. Zwick: We represent , , and , three victims of the terrorist bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya on August 7, 1998. The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 is an appropriate measure to provide compensation for individuals who were killed or physically injured as a result of the September 11th terrorist attacks on America. The scope of the legislation, however, should be broadened to include the handful of other Americans who have been directly harmed by similar strikes by the same foreign terrorists on what is commonly understood to be American soil. Just three years before the September 11th attacks, the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were the targets of other terrorist bombings - this time by truck instead of aircraft. The attacks killed 22 Americans and seriously injured 26 more. Ms. Bomer was left blind, and Mr. Pressley has endured seven surgeries and remains permanently disabled. The survivors, as well as the families of the deceased, continue to grieve and to seek ways to deal with their losses. These Americans were employees of the U.S. Department of State and were doing America's work - building peace, supporting justice, and promoting America's interests and foreign policy. However, because of the United States' role in promoting democracy worldwide, and because of the symbolic value of their office buildings, the embassies were targeted by those who oppose our principles. As President George W. Bush confirmed in his address to Congress on September 20, 2001, the same terrorist organization is responsible for the bombings of the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. There is no rational basis for treating the victims of these attacks differently. Our government must provide equal treatment to all Americans who have been killed or injured by these same foreign terrorists. The Bush Administration should seek an expansion of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 to include the American victims of the August 7, 1998, terrorist attacks on the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Sincerely, Individual Comment Washington, D.C. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-27 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 dojA000057.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. 2001-11-27