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 07, 2002 8:04 PM victim compansation fund I would like to begin by stating that all though I have not directly been affected (in terms of family loss) by the 9/11 tragedy, I along with every other rational human being have been affected emotionally. I have followed the development day by day on CNN. I must take this opportunity though to express my disblief in what I am hearing, and what I have seen on an interview that was aired on today's show (1/7/02). I believe that their is no monatary dollar value that can be placed on the lives of all of those innocent people. In such turbulant times, I also can not fathum the thought that the familis of the victims are angered and worried about not receiving their "fair share" of the Victim Compansation Fund. I feel that if the vicitims were financially savy, and were able to plan for their futures and the futures of their family members, then the funds should be distributed to those who really do need it. i.e. the family's of the waiters, porters, kitchen help etc. No family or person should be coming out of this tragedy with excess money. Yes, I do understand that the children of the victims will be re-living the tragedy for the rest of their lives, but how will being a millionare in the process help elevate the pain? Especially while there are other family members who truly have nothing? If the victim's had life insurance, 401k's etc. then they should be reliying on those assets for financial security and leave the fund money for those less fortunate and who really nead it. I believe that none of the family's should strugle to make ends meat, and at the same time no one should benifit either. I feel that the formula that was created for the distribution of funds is fair, and as long as there is room for adjustment, all should be thankfull for such a wonderfull government that enables them to receive anything at all! In essance, give to those who need it the most! Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-07 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 dojN001437.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. 2002-01-07