Tuesday, November 06, 2001 6:16 AM

Whatever you do, you need to extend eligibility for people other than families of those who died or were hospitalized. What about all the trauma people are faced with now? Who need counseling? Who lost homes, jobs?

I think if Americans were told that some of their donations would go to these people, they would be just as happy. Everyone who was directly affected in some way (after all, we were all traumatized, but I'm sure that to be there, to have seen it, to have run for your life from it, to have looked for your child at a daycare near ground zero, etc., etc....this is a greater degree of trauma than for those of us who were traumatized by watching the scenes on TV or even for those of us who couldn't reach relatives for hours in NY) should be eligible to make claims.

The elderly who can't home, who lost pets, the children who need counseling from continuing nightmares, the WTC unemployed, survivor guilt, all these issues are very important and people need financial resources to deal with them.

Please make the eligibility rules as liberal as possible. Spread this money far and wide. There is enough for everyone.

Thank you,
A Donor

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