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 19, 2002 12:20 PM September 11 Fund Dear Mr. President: I write to express my anger and sadness at finding out that many of the domestic partners of people lost in the World Trade Center tragedy will not be eligible to receive benefits from the September 11 Fund. I've no doubt that the many goodhearted Americans who have contributed to this fund have done so to help all the victims' families, not only those with a marriage license. I hope that you will urge Congress to develop its own, broader guidelines -- not simply adhere to those of individual states -- in deciding who is eligible for these benefits. As an individual whose office is located just five blocks from the disaster site, I shudder to think of what would have become of my partner of seven years had I been one of the unfortunate souls lost on that day. Certainly a charitable fund overseen by the Department of Justice should not exclude unmarried life partners in making reparations to families. The only just thing is to grant equivalent status to life partners based on cohabitation and other factors routinely used to determine non-marriage partnerships. This is not the time to score points with any particular political group by following a certain set of guidelines with which that group is comfortable. This is a time to make help available for ALL the families who need it. Thank you for your attention. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-19 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 dojR002305.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. 2002-03-19