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. Thursday, December 20, 2001 8:59 PM Payment plan for survivors of 09/11 Indeed 09/11 was the most tragic event that has taken place in my lifetime. Lives of generations have been changed forever. I can still vividly see the news pictures. I am very concerned over these payments. I have calculated that if I had died in the WTC my wife and son would have received approximately $1.2 million from this federal fund, the $200,000 I have in life insurance, my savings, $200,000 from my accidental death policy plus whatever comes from our church and charities. In addition to these things, since I would have been at work they would be entitled to workers' compensation payments. So, you are looking at well over $1.5 million not counting specific numbers from charities. Even at current interest rates an investment of this would yield more than my annual income and my family could live off the interest easily. I guess the short end of this is that I feel these payments from the Federal government are excessive. While death is sad, when do you draw the line about making payments like this. I assure you that if my wife or son were to die as the result of a terrorist attack I expect to get the same treatment from my government. That is because this dangerous precedent is being set. I have also asked myself is my government doing this to avoid law suits against the airlines and this is another way to bail them out. I hope not. I suspect, knowing corporate America, that the airlines will do all they can to better themselves because of this tragedy. They will seek out any monies they can get. I only hope that some auditor is comparing their current status to 09/10. With regard to gay/lesbian survivors, the bottom line is that the laws of this land do not provide for payment to those that are not family, spouses or children. That is the bottom line. If you permit this now you will set another dangerous precedent. I am a married man with a child. I am the average American. Gay and lesbian folks are not. Politics aside, no other animal on this planet establishes life long sexual relationships with same sex partners. We were not designed as a species for this. Bottom line, the average American does not believe in supporting homosexuality. As soon as anyone speaks out against it we are trampled by a loud gay/lesbian alleging we are homophobic. This is absurd. In summary, please reconsider the amount of payments as you are spending our tax dollars and do not permit gay/lesbian people to claim survivorship status. Thank you. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-20 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 dojN000125.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. 2001-12-20