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, March 13, 2002 4:08 PM stop discrimination I'm writing to say that I am shocked to hear that partners of gay and lesbian victims of the September 11th tragedy will not recieve the same compensation as straight people and as illegal aliens will recieve. In a country which is supposedly founded on the separation of church and state, this is a strange circumstance indeed. It appears that the government is taking the kind of stance that did in those days immediately following the tragedy....making it clear that fundamentalist prejudice is still very alive in the U.S., just as it is in many fundamentalist Islamic countries. The fact that it is Christians doing the discrimination is no comfort to those affected by this discrimination. Please realize that history will one day recognize the legitimate human rights of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people, who have always been a part of building this nation, and of defending it, as (a gay man on United flight 93) did on September 11th, 2001. How wonderful it would be if the manner in which the September 11th Compensation Fund is distributed could be a sign of a coming equitable and just future, rather than a remnant of a hypocritical and ignorant past. Sincerely, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-13 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 dojR002099.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. 2002-03-13