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, December 06, 2001 10:13 PM equal help for defacto spouses and children of the 09/11 tragedy To: Kenneth L. Zwick, Director Office of Management Programs, Civil Division U.S. Department of Justice In re: ?September 11 Victim Compensation Fund.? As the wife of a man whose office (WTC, floor, Suite ) was destroyed on September 11th, although he was not there and those who were in the office luckily escaped, I write to urge that the Fund providing compensation to individuals who were injured, or to relatives of those who were killed, as a result of the events of September 11th be given to partners and defacto children of common law marriages and lesbian/gay partnerships as well as to the "legally" married. We are acutely aware that in New York City and in the WTC towers there were a LARGE number of "non-traditional families represented, including partnerships, both gay and lesbian, of over 15 , even 30 years duration. These people are devastated, as is everyone else, and they have even fewer social supports than many of the rest of us to fall back on. Please include them in your financial assistance and counseling help EQUALLY with others of more traditional family persuasion. It is not hard to determine if a partnership is enduring. All of these people have social friends and possibly churches or other groups who can come forward to testify (or not) as to the nature and length of the partener ship. Surely these partners and children are no less victims of terror than the legal spouses and children of our more usual social patterns. I am therefore urging the adoption of rules that are inclusive of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people and their attacks and I pray that the Department of Justice will include among relatives eligible for compensation those who lost their life partners or de facto parents or children, regardless of sexual orientation or marital status. Thank you, Individual Comment Plainfield, NJ September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-06 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 dojA001239.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. 2001-12-06