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, November 12, 2001 1:31 AM sep 11 First off I need to say that the people providing you comments are not fully aware of what is REALLY happening with their heartfelt donations. I know personally, because I lost my MOM in the tragedy. People see a figure of $1 billion donated and think....OK 1 billion divided by 5000 equals 200k per family. Seems like we have been taken care of.....right??? WRONG!!!! I would like to let the pubic and the DOJ know that I have received a total of 9,000 from the Red Cross to help pay ALL of my Mother's expenses. So PLEASE don't think we are walking away millionaires. These charities need to be investigated to see what they really do with the extremely generous donations made by warm and caring individuals. And let me also mention that to ask the opinion of people who have no idea what our family and the thousands of families like us, have personally gone through, is irresponsible. They do not have the slightest idea what this has done to us. My sister had to be hospitalized for several weeks due to this tragedy. She lost 25 lbs and was vomiting and passing blood. My other sister left a 125k and year job because she cannot even function anymore. These people who are making these opinions on MY life and what I am entitled to, should try for one millisecond to live a day in my life since September 11th. Maybe they can try and think of their own precious mothers, who nurtured and cared and raised them, being maliciously cut into pieces and left amid the wreckage that once was the WTC. Then have that compounded by knowing that what is left of her may very well wind up in a DUMP. Think of THAT before you pass judgment on me and what I have to go through on a daily basis! NO ONE BUT THE FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS IN THIS TRAGEDY CAN PROVIDE YOU WITH ADEQUATE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS APPROPRIATE!! In addition I had heard that distribution of the monies from this fund may be linked to future earnings on the individual if they would have reached retirement age. Well my mom was 62 years old and only had three more years to work. Does that mean that her life is worth less than some 30 year old? My mother was the heart and sole of my family and our hearts have been ripped to shreds. Do not judge the distribution on age. We all loved these people the same. We all feel the same pain. May God Bless all the victims Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-12 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 dojW000313.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. 2001-11-12