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. Saturday, January 12, 2002 1:08 PM Fairness I am not convinced that the Victim Compensation Fund is an appropriate function of our federal government, but I do recognize the validity of arguments on either side of the issue. Since the proponents have apparently already prevailed, I can accept the inevitability of the program. What I cannot accept as reasonable or equitable are the provisions to reduce beneficiary payments by the amount of existing life insurance and/or retirement plan benefits received. Those victims who loved their families and had the character to buy adequate life insurance, and who had the discipline to forego present wants in order to contribute to retirement plans for their own and their families' future comfort, are being dishonored when their government disregards those prior commendable traits and in fact penalizes their families because their deceased providers did the right thing! I urge you to remove the proposal to reduce Fund benefit payments by life insurance and retirement proceeds available to beneficiaries. That would be doing the right thing! Thank you for your attention and consideration. Individual Comment Houston, TX September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-12 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 dojN001545.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. 2002-01-12