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. Wednesday, December 05, 2001 7:16 PM Compensation for Gay Survivors I am writing out of my concern that gay and lesbian surviving partners of victims of the World Trade Center and other terrorist attacks be granted full compensation as other lifetime partners are receiving. This is only moral and fair. What I am seeing is that a "wife" of a married victim under the current definition, even if married only six months, is receiving lifetime support and funding, while gay partners, even if they were together 50 years or more, are receiving nothing in their grief. This incredible and intolerable injustice must end. Gay men and women were among the victims and the heroes of our recent tragedies. One gay man confronted the terrorists directly, by the existing evidence of the Pennsylvania plane downing, and is a true American hero is every sense of the word. To treat such heroes and victims so shabbily is not worthy of our great nation. We must grant full financial support to gay partners of the terrorists victims that if fully equal to that provided married life partners. To do anything else is evil and Un-American. Even now, Germany is paying compensation to gay men and women for the injustice visited to them in the Nazi era. America should be choosing higher ground. Let's do the moral and right thing--not the narrow-minded, bigoted and perversely evil thing. God knows the difference between right and wrong, just as he knows the difference between truly devout people and the detestable Jerry Falwells of the world. It is so easy and simple-minded to hate. And so wrong. God bless America. Individual Comment Miami, FL September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-05 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 dojA001013.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. 2001-12-05