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 23, 2002 12:00 AM brother of victim re Interim Final Rule and related regulations Dear Kenneth Feinberg, My sister, &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp , died on that awful day in September. She was an employee of &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp , a broker with offices on the &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp floor of WTC Tower I ( &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp ). I am writing to express my profound distress at the apparent perverse outcome which arises from application of the Interim Final Rule and related regulations in the case of a victim who has died intestate (without a will), such as my sister. Specifically, to the extent any award is considered to be comprised of "pain and suffering monies" (apart from monies defined as compensation for lost wages) in the case of my sister it appears that ALL of those monies will be going to only one person (husband of 2 years) in a rather arbitrary fashion due to the fact that she had not left a will, though her close family actually consisted of 5 persons total, i.e. her newly wed husband as well as parents and my brother and I. Expressed simply: it is certainly not the case that ONLY her husband of 2 years has experienced "pain and suffering" of a magnitude meriting compensation, yet as my sister had not the opportunity to specify who else might merit such care he alone will be the one to receive it, as if the others did not exist. It is a cruel phenomenon of the law and what is proposed that in the absence of my sister having left a will (she had not foreseen the need for one as she as yet had little) the REALITY of her life will be ignored, with her dear ones apart from her husband being ignored entirely, as if the anguish and sorrow we feel does not exist. It is logical that compensation for lost wages should go entirely to her spouse and life partner, but to award monies for pain and suffering per a disavowal of who ACTUALLY constituted her close family simply due to lack of a will is for us further sadness upon tragedy. Sincerely, Individual Comment Montréal, QC CANADA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-23 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 dojP000001.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. 2002-01-23