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, April 03, 2002 1:28 PM Dear Sir/Madam: I am a middle aged heterosexual women who is unbelievably distressed at the extraordinary injustice of your decision to deny benefits to the families of gay and lesbian victims of the 9/11 attacks. These terrorists did not discriminate in their heinous attack on our country. They sought to destroy two towers and a Pentagon full of Americans and their allies - people of all races, of all religions and of all sexual preferences. In other words, they saw us as one people--how tragic, how remarkably unpatriotic and unfair, that our own government and charities, the same agencies we fund with our tax dollars and our donations, do not. In fact, what you are now doing is victimizing the families of those gays and lesbians that were killed on September 11th for a second time. If you are going to discriminate, you should have been so kind as to let people know before they donate--I can't tell you how many good and kind Americans I know who gave money to 9/11 charities, assuming, as did I, that the money would be distributed fairly to all who suffered from this tragedy. We all feel cheated now -- now not by the terrorists, but by our own government and institutions. Shame on all of you who have made this decision. Individual Comment New York, NY September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-04-03 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 dojR002892.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. 2002-04-03