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. Friday, March 15, 2002 6:54 PM 9/11 Gay Discrimination I do not understand the remarks recently made by your representative to Tim Russert. In clarifying that you must abide by the States' laws you have provided a contradiction to your own decision to provide compensation to illegal aliens. Do State laws permit this? It is explicit that they recognize illegal aliens in terms of other services, etc. I believe it is only right that we provide assistance to illegal aliens and I think the INS has been quite generous in taking steps to ensure that those coming forward are safeguarded from potential deportation. Nevertheless, to then turn our back on U.S. citizens who happen to be in same-sex relationships seems completely absurd. One of the heroes, , was gay and eulogized by Senator McCain. One of the on the first flight to crash into the World Trade Center was gay. The who rushed to the scene and died . Countless other lost their lives, lost their lives or their loved ones. To use an argument that you open the government up to lawsuits from different states is disengenious and plain wrong. The process has been undermined by so many financial determinations already that this is one more slap in the face to a last remaining group of victims. Individual Comment San Franciso, CA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-15 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 dojR000875.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. 2002-03-15