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. Monday, January 28, 2002 1:32 AM My opinion To whom it may concern, I saw an article in the paper discussing the compensation for victims that had this address and thought I would contribute my $.02 worth. The loss of a loved one is a terrible thing to bear and go through and I do have sympathy for the people who's lives were affected by this. With this said, listening to some of them complain because they aren't going to get any money from the government is absolutely ridiculous. Why are we paying these people to begin with? What did they do to deserve it? The answer? They went to work and were killed. The people on the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania and the fire fighters that went into a burning building may be heroes, but the rest did nothing. Are we going to give millions to the clerks of liquor and convenience stores who are killed because they happened to go to work that day? Would we be giving these people millions of dollars because they were killed in a car crash on the way to work? What about the people killed in the Lockerbie flight, the embassy bombings, Oklahoma City, or the first attack on the World Trade Centers. Are we giving them millions of dollars? I don't believe we are. Why aren't we giving millions to the families of service men and women who are killed defending our country? They at least are truly dying for our country. The others are just people who went to work and had the (mis)fortune to be killed by a terrorist attack. We're giving them millions, giving their kids scholarships, exempting them from all taxes for 2 years, and allowing them to forgo estate taxes up to $8 million dollars. If they have an estate worth 8 million dollars, they sure as hell don't need money from the government or any fund. I'm sorry that my opinion may seem callous, but the bottom line is that all that most of them did was die because they went to work. I can agree on money for the fire fighters, police and passengers on the PA flight that may have saved others by trying to retake the plane, but the others did nothing to deserve anything. Individual Comment Fort Collins, Colorado September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-28 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 dojP000216.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. 2002-01-28