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. Friday, January 11, 2002 12:51 PM REALITY CHECK I am very bothered by what I perceive as greedy people when it comes to distribution of funds to the victims of Sep 11th. The U.S. Government had to bail out the airlines to keep them from all going bankrupt. This was a necessary action as the transportation industry touches all of us either directly or indirectly. Their collapse would have been catastrophic for all of us economically. Why did the Government set up a fund for the victims of 9/11? From what I understand, it is to prevent individuals from filing separate lawsuits against the either the Government or the airlines. I believe that was a prudent move by the President and Congress. The unprecedented outpouring of generosity by all Americans, the efforts of charity organizations, and this Government fund more than adequately provide for the families of the victims. I realize that this is a terrible period for those who lost loved ones, but I believe that this type of quibbling about money can only have a negative impact on everyone. Is there anyone who really believes that any American or American organization/business wished this on anyone, or that they were deliberately negligent, and that their actions led to these attacks? I don't think so. So what's the purpose in pursuing individual lawsuits against anyone; it will only force the airlines to go under and the victims won't get their money then anyway. We will then be in worse economic shape than we are now. Everyone will suffer. There is no way for distribution of these funds to be totally fair in the eyes of everyone. That's just the way it is. I am a U.S. Marine. If I were killed in ground combat in Afghanistan, my wife and three children would receive $250,000.00 in life insurance that I paid for, and a couple thousand for burial expenses . If they happened to live on a military base at the time of my death, they would have 30 days to move out. There is no private fund set up for my family, no automatic college fund for my kids. Does that seem fair - not to me, but that's just the way it is. Let's no let the lawyers drive the train on this. We all need to take a step back, and GET REAL. Individual Comment Quantico, VA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-11 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 dojN001522.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. 2002-01-11