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 11:29 PM Who are the real victims I have been reading the comments of my fellow Americans, and it turns my stomach to know that we are so inhuman. So I ask who are the real victims. The dead or the live ones that are left behind to witness the turning on each other. Why? I will try and answer. I am a retired fire fighter and when I saw what took place on September 11th, I wanted to pick up the phone and tell the fire fighters to go into a defensive mode. I couldn't, I am in Washington, DC and watching the events in New York. I know what they were thinking, lives to be saved. With our training this is our first reaction in this type of situation. "Save lives first, property second and ourselves last." God bless those who lost there lives doing what they were trained, and paid to do for the citizens of America. Now comes the compensation awards. " Money changes people." The almighty dollar rules again. The real victims are the ones who lost their lives. I am sure they are so embarrassed of the actions by their love ones, and their fellow Americans. The highest honor we can pay these people would be to put all the evil thoughts away. Why can't we put these evil actions behind us? It is because of the money. The government has done the one thing they always do, put the dollar bills out there. We in America think money is the answer to many of our problems. I am sure there are other solutions. It would be good to let a common American sit in on some of these panels that make decisions like this. It is awful strange that under a Republican president the plan was to save big business. The airlines, the insurance companies and the mortgage companies. Why couldn't they focus on education, that would build a strong future of America. Set up funds for the children left behind. Pay off the mortgages of the victims. With this compensation, who is to say it will be used in the way it was intended. We are spending more money to rebuild a country that gave aid to the same people that created this situation. Why? We don't owe them more than we do our own. Because of this money the real victims have been forgotten. They are having a better life, where ever their faith has led them. We should not let these victims fall victim to greed and deceit also. Retired Wash. D.C. Fireman Individual Comment 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 dojP000257.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