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. Sunday, March 17, 2002 7:27 AM Excluding a segment of society because of personal distaste is rather unfortunate and unfair. That gays and lesbians cannot be compensated is wrong. IF fetuses can be covered, then surely someone who is born gay or lesbian should be covered too. What message are you sending that 5% of 14-18 year olds struggling with the sexuality? That they are less worthy than everyone else because of something they had nothing to do with? THanks for contributing to the higher suicide rates and pervasive mental health and underperformance problems among this group because of your personal prejudices. Perhaps religion ought to be a basis for discrimination as well. Let's pick one where only 5% of the population or less practices that religion -- after all, the majority won't mind. The hallmark of a democracy is the protection of its minorities. You and your colleagues are undermining the very thing we are fighting for. Individual Comment Miami Beach, Fl September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-17 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 dojR001344.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. 2002-03-17