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...biggest player: more than 7,000 people affected by the attacks have received over $12 billion, most of which came from the federally financed Victim Compensation Fund. But the $25 million Survivors' Fund, formed to help those affected by the crash of American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon, may be the best model for assisting victims of a mass-casualty disaster...
...Foundation for the National Capital Region created the fund to do more than just write checks. Each of its 1,051 clients was assigned an experienced social worker who helped draft a set of personalized goals. For Sergeant First Class Christopher Braman, an Army Ranger who was at the Pentagon on 9/11 and was severely injured while helping recover bodies at the site, the case managers "became like family." The fund assisted Braman's wife in getting scholarships for nursing school and found college students to mentor the couple's three daughters. "They didn't pay a bill...
...Secretary, all of the senior leadership in the Pentagon knew what was happening. Franks issued the orders and McKiernan was executing them...
...After the meeting ended, I remember walking out of the Pentagon shaking my head and wondering how in the world Rumsfeld could have expected me to believe him. Everybody knew that CENTCOM had issued orders to drawdown the forces. The Department of Defense had printed public affairs guidance for how the military should answer press queries about the redeployment. There were victory parades being planned. And in mid-May 2003, Rumsfeld himself had sent out some of his famous "snowflake" memorandums to Gen. Franks asking how the general was going to redeploy all the forces in Kuwait. The Secretary knew...
...From that, my belief was that Rumsfeld's intent appeared to be to minimize and control further exposure within the Pentagon and to specifically keep this information from the American public...