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 20, 2002 6:53 PM Kenneth L. Swick Hello Sir, I am writing you in formal protest over your blatant prejudice against gays and lesbians, regarding the September 11th fund. Your mishandling of the situation in which thousands of people, not numbers or statistics died is horrendous. How dare they reclaim the right to money to which they were entitled! How dare they expect that in the land of the free, where all men were created equal unless they prefer sex with their own gender! Whether or not you know of the day to day prejudices which so many of them face, certainly you can empathize with those that lost the loves of their lives. Sir, please read the following paragraph, then close your eyes and imagine. You are coming home from work, when you can't breathe. You cannot see the buildings, but you can hear the screaming all the same. You pull the car over where you think the road ends, adn step out only to be thrown to the floor by the crowd rushing like a rage past you. Someone helps you up as they run, adn you stumble to your feet only to trip over the debris of dreams and metal buildings made to withstnad everything except an attack on Democracy in the form of an air raid on home ground. You try to ask what happened, but can't intake enough oxygen to breathe, let alone scream. After what seems like hours, you are able to inhale enough and ask what the panic is about, why the feeling in the air is as stale as the air is. They tell you no one knows what is happpening, that the Trade Centers are down. You realize that your loved ones are dead, being on the 71st floor as they were, and you realize things will never be the same. You realize the woman you spent the last five years of intimate moments with is with them in heaven, or in the debris, or wherever it is people go who are murdered like that. Now imagine that you are a lesbian, and that was you. America came together after that tragedy. Don't tear it apart again. Things will go back to normal too soon anyway, and then the crash landing in consciousness truly will have been for naught. Thanks for your time, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-20 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 dojR002416.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. 2002-03-20