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 20, 2020 2:20 PM Please compensate domestic partners If we're bending the law and giving to illegal aliens (who are actually committing a crime, as are their employers) then let's bend a bit on deciding morality. We're giving money to fetuses (who are not people under my state's laws). I don't dispute the worthiness of these victims. Compassion dictates that we move outside of the law in a time like this. (Obviously, domestic partners need to show shared residence but our company requires some proof of financial interweaving as well.) A man like &nbsp is a hero, regardless of his sexual orientation. If he's got a domestic partner, compensate the man. Same for the &nbsp on the &nbsp flight. Let's not break the unity Americans now feel with our age-old bane of discrimination. I've been happily married for 10 years, with two little boys, run a successful advertising agency (I was the SBA's California Small Businessperson of the Year in 2001), and pay a small fortune in taxes every year (helping to fund the fund). It breaks my heart that at a time like this we want to score political points deciding whose worthwhile in America. Like it or not, some people who died on 9/11 were gay, and some were illegal aliens, some might have been alcoholics, drug users, smokers, had criminal records, were chronic speeders, abusive parents...let's just stop trying to break them down, deciding their worthiness of largess. Compensate their loved ones, whoever they were, whatever their flaws, whether they'd had the benefit of marriage available in their state. State laws used to permit slavery and a myriad of other morally repugnant stances. Let's not assume the law today will prove to be the ideal moral guide in exercising compassion that will be remembered. You have a chance, not to make a political statement, but to act with compassion. Please take that opportunity to permit domestic partners of any sex to qualify for family benefits. Thank you, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2020-03-20 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 dojR002475.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. 2020-03-20