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 06, 2001 2:28 PM I am commenting on whether the law establishing a fund for victims of the September 11th attacks, permits awards to be made without regard to what a family had accepted in charity. To my understanding, the purpose of the fund was to make victims and their families "whole" after any losses they suffered. The concept of "wholeness" is regularly used in property and casualty insurance policies. In those policies, it is regarded as fundamentally unfair for someone to receive more compensation than they lost due to an accident or event. Some victims will likely receive more charitable assistance than other victims. It would be unfair for some to end up with more monetary compensation than the others. At the same time, I do not want people to be put off from donating to charities or for victims to refuse charitable assistance because they fear they may lose government assistance. Is it possible to use money from the fund to compensate for certain definable losses and allow charities to help out with other losses? For example, charities could be allowed to pay for a funeral or a couple months living expenses, while the government fund might compensate for the lost wages of a victim. I don't know if this is a workable solution. My other suggestion would be to reward every victim an equal sum of money regardless of what they received from charity. We can't have the charities and victims become accountants. We must not continue to dwell on this tragedy. If each class of victim received the same reward there would be less chance for the government to be accused of playing favorites. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-06 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 dojW000109.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. 2001-11-06