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. Thursday, November 29, 2001 8:34 AM Inclusivity Please take note of the many Americans who are want to be reassured that the Victim's Compensation Fund is going to cover not just "traditional" families, but also those gay and lesbian families who lost loved ones during the attacks of September 11th. The President has spoken repeatedly of bringing the nation together and of taking care of each other, and this is the best possible way to demonstrate that at a time of incomprehensible grief, the federal government is not going to start making judgments about the way people live their lives. A lost breadwinner is a lost breadwinner, whether they are black or white, man or woman, straight or gay, married or co-habiting. Provided demonstrable evidence is available of co-dependence, be it a mortgage or lease or joint bank statements/credit cards, or less formal evidence, for not all of us merge our financial affairs with those we share our lives with, then the bereaved individual deserves support from this fund to the same degree as a "traditional wife and two kids" who lost a husband and Father. The appointment of a democrat has already gone a long way to ease the fears of those who suspected that AG Ashcroft would exclude all but married individuals from the fund - I hope very much that the new administrator of the fund will be as inclusive as possible in determining eligibility. Thank you. Individual Comment Tucson, AZ September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-29 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 dojA000179.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. 2001-11-29