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 12:04 AM 9-11 Fund is flawed The world looks to the United States of America as an example, we attempt to make wrongs right all over the world and to educate the world to be compassionate of differences in people. We try to work to heal religious differences, racial differences and educational differences...yet our own country is going through its most devastating time emotionally and economically for the last 50 years and we are not showing compassion to our citizens. If I understand correctly the will of this Fund is to EXCLUDE domestic partners of gay VICTIMS of 9-11. WHAT!? We have overcome so much to learn to not hate people for their sexual preference and this fund seems to take the country back 20 years. Do domestic partners of gay victims not have house payments, or credit card bills, or need money for food and medical care? Most Fortune 500 companies now pay life insurance benefits to domestic partners in a homosexual relationship if they can prove they have been in that committed relationship for 6 months or longer - why can't a fund formed in 2001 follow suit? Is the only reason that you have excluded this group of people is because you don't feel their argument for punitive damages will hold in a US court of law, if they attempt to sue the airlines? Seems to be a purely financial decision in a time when this country needs compassion, from the top down. If the United States wants patriotism and compassion among its citizens, the government needs to start to treat all citizens fairly. We can start by treating gay domestic partners (tax payers!) at least as well as illegal aliens. Individual Comment Atlanta, GA 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 dojR002065.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