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. Saturday, March 16, 2002 5:16 PM 9/11 Fund Exclusion of Gays I am a college student, and being young I am assumed to be cynical and have little tolerance or respect for our government. But the latest actions of our government bring my respect for our government to a new low. The hypocrisy of our leaders is absolutely appalling. I have lost my faith. How can our country, our government, our leaders, and ourselves truly believe in a free world if we fail to let that freedom encompass all people? We can no longer seek to find division amongst ourselves. The policies of division are what have dictated the past and can no longer be supported. Our countries policies of division have separated landowners from non-landowners, men from women, whites from Blacks (and every other race), Christians from Jews and Muslims, and straight people from gays and lesbians. When will we learn? I would have thought that we would have learned September 11th. I was under the impression that since September 11th, we have all come together, to be united as a country. But in fact the opposite is true. From our government's policies targeting Arab-Americans and other immigrants to the 9/11 fund's exclusion of gays, our country, our government, our leaders, and ourselves (if we choose to do nothing about it) have once again resorted to a policy of divisiveness. It is time -- in fact it has been time for several years now -- to take a stand. We can no longer let our governments policies of division separate us. We are all Americans, and more importantly we are all humans. No amount of misguided laws, divisive policies, prejudice or fear can deny that fact. As a college student, as the future of this country, I ask you to end this countrys policies of division and help unite us all, gay and straight alike, under the banner of humanity. Sincerely, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-16 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 dojR001122.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. 2002-03-16