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. Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 11:13 AM Subject: Victim Compensation for Gay Families The outpouring of donations after September 11 was heartwarming. It felt like the country was pulling together to heal. Terrorism can only take place when one person or group views another person or group as less significant than the ideology that rules the terrorist's groups beliefs. It was seeming for a brief time that terrorism by any group was going to be addressed and condemned. Now I am not sure. The concept of "Family" is now being defined and my concern is that many families that don't fall into the restricted concept of the Judeo-Christian family will be left out of the mix. It would be a sad mistake to define family by what it is not, instead of what it is. To use the "traditional heterosexual family" as the absolute and Gay headed families as the antithesis would deprive and marginalize the essence of "Family" being a supported collection of individuals that share a common bond emotionally and financially out of love and survival. We live in a country that has denied, and later marginalized same gender love; a love that has been with us all through history. In fact its history is long and impressive. To be singled out and hated at worst, and shunned is a form of terrorism also. Gay people are singled out for political discrimination, singled out for execution, and singled out for verbal abuse. It would be a crime if the government would continue with this practice. The biggest push behind the hatred of same sex love is from the religious right. Their basis for this campaign stems from the same fear of difference as that of other fundamentalist religious or political groups. How can we condemn a situation in the Middle East and condone it here in our country. Please break this long held prejudice and acknowledge the needs of all victims of this awful terrorist attack. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-05 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 dojA000793.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. 2001-12-05