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 11:14 AM thinking equitably No one asked me if I were gay when I sent in my contribution to the fund. Somehow, we were all Americans then, equally attacked, responding in kind. Why did you not more simply think through the central question from the very beginning: "Who will now be in financial difficulty due to the attacks on the WTC?" and set up various categories to cover spouses, dependents, roommates, business partners, etc. all just in order to minimize the effects of these attacks on all of us, and thereby help defeat those who would bring us down? Each category could then carry different parameters of proving need. Why is a federal/ national program necessarily subject to various state laws? Are there not rather well-to-do persons receiving substantial payments for broadly termed loss and grief? Too much of the response to this attack on us seems to mirror the kind of thoughtless lack of useful intelligence that made us such an easy target to begin with. One might even go so far as to say that by making yourselves hostages to certain states' laws, you are aligned with the same kind of hatefully moralistic, anti-modern thinking that typifies the terrorists. Perhaps I should discontinue sending any more money to the various charities that go to human beings, and only fund those that help animals. Animals, at least, treat me kindly. Individual Comment Chicago, IL 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 dojR002342.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