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. Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:47 PM 911 fund To Whom It May Concern: Kenneth Feinberg on NBC's Meet The Press, March 10, 2002: "[Gays and lesbians are] left out of my program to the extent that their own state doesn't include them. "If your state law makes you eligible, I will honor state law. If it doesn't, I go with the state." What a fascinating statement this is. Especially given that Feinberg had just gotten through saying this: "The attorney general, in consultation with Immigration, etc., undocumented aliens who come forward, the families will not suffer any consequences. They are covered by this program. I'm not a politician, but I have to guess that there are also state laws about illegal aliens and their rights. In short, the 911 fund will break the law for illegal aliens, but simply can't when it comes to homosexuals. Is this not what is being said here? I'm horrified by this. Given that one of the heroes aboard Flight 93 was a gay man, and that it's now thought that he and others may have saved the Capitol Building, shouldn't we include all people in the fund set up to help the afflicted? If had a significant other, that person would not be helped by the fund. But if a non-taxpaying person, a non-citizen was affected, that person would be taken care of? Is this what America is about? By the way, I'm not saying that your ruling on illegal aliens is incorrect. I'm merely showing the hypocrisy of this statement. What have we learned from Sept. 11? Have we not learned the value of all life? Haven't we learned that the America we love and cherish includes great diversity, and that hatred of any group, in its ugliest form, is deadly? I urge you to reconsider this policy. Respectfully, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-12 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 dojR000539.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. 2002-03-12