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 20, 2001 11:46 AM Victims Compensation Fund Comments I unfortunately lost my father on 9/11 due to the horrific terrorist attacks on the WTC. Although I am pleased that the government is establishing a "fund" to compensate those victims and families directly affected by the attack; I do see some flaws with this process: Why is it taking so long to get this started? The families need money now, not later. How can you actually say to a family who lost a loved one that " any life insurance proceeds that you received will be deducted from the government compensation"? It looks like you are "punishing" the families who had life insurance! This is unacceptable. My father (as well as any other individual who had life insurance) paid alot of money for this coverage. Life insurance proceeds should not be subtracted from the amount the "fund" pays out to the families. We are at war & Bush has said "he will use every means possible to bring down the terrorists". I commend him for this BUT he should "every means" possible to FULLY compensate the victims & their families. Why would a family who has gone through such an emotional time, have to sign a waiver (to not sue the airlines) BEFORE they find out how much compensation they will receive? This is unfair to all of us! If we sign the waiver not to sue- it sets us up to receive a minimal amount of compensation. Give us a compensation figure that you will pay us & let us decide if it is acceptable. If we believe it is acceptable, then we will sign the waiver not to sue. Lastly, everyone has done an excellent job of helping the families. Don't give yourself a black eye by screwing this up. We already have enough misery, so please don't make this process any harder. Thank You. Individual Comment Yonkers, NY September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-20 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 dojW000405.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. 2001-11-20