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. Wednesday, January 16, 2002 8:00 AM Victims Fund Monday, January 14, 2002 Dear Mr. Zwick: The purpose of this email is to provide you with my concerns relating to the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund. My brother was murdered in the September 11th WTC disaster. He was a very special person to our family in many ways. The loss of my brother has deeply affected me, as well as my brother and sister. The loss to my mother is devastation. This loss will be with us until the end of our days. I have reviewed the rules of the fund and have a number of issues with it. I believe the rules fall far short of the clear intent of what Congress expressed. I believe you merely accepted a statue that was handed down in creating a process or a program that would be accepted by those touched by this terrible act. This fund was created for only one reason...to create a compensation program that would replace what otherwise would be overwhelming litigation against a variety of businesses, industries, etc. The guidelines, as provided in the Victims Fund, in the "simplest terms" are unfair, unrealistic, flawed and are insulting. The method that was applied to derive the base tables to compute the awards are not valid and do not reflect the actual costs and future earnings. How can YOU measure the worth of an individual life based upon his economic loss? It is a very "slippery slope"" one travels down when determining which life counts more than another life. I believe a base amount should be given to each family---that amount as indicated in the document submitted to you by the Family Committee---is $2,000,000. Provide this amount across the board. Equally. The deduction of insurance and pensions should be removed from the award computation!!! When was the last time you heard of a jury making an award settlement subject to subtraction of insurance and pension??????? The Victims Compensation fund was established for the correct reasons. Please return to the original purpose of creating this fund. Fairness and Equality for the Victims Families. Change the current guidelines NOW. Sincerely, Individual Comment Scituate, Ma September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-16 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 dojN001629.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. 2002-01-16