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. Tuesday, December 04, 2001 5:23 PM Please do not ignore survivors of gay and lesbian 9/11 victims Mr. Kenneth L. Zwick, Director Office of Management Programs, Civil Division U.S. Department of Justice Dear Mr. Zwick: Thank you and the Justice Department for requesting that regular citizens make known their opinions regarding the proposed regulations that will underlie the implementation and administration of the "September 11 Victim Compensation Fund." It is extremely important that the Department draft regulations that ensure compensation is available to _all_ victims of the attack, including the committed partners and the non-biological children of gay and lesbian victims. The compounding of grief and hardship that results from legally protected discrimination against and disenfranchisement of surviving non-biological family members of gay men and lesbians is well known. Denying the partners and children of victims of the September 11 attacks is even more cruel because it propounds the heartless notion that the families of gay and lesbian victims are somehow of less worth than other families and does so in a very public, damning way. The terrorists' religious zeal brought them to a point at which they made no distinctions among the people who became their victims. If we do not overtly shun the religious zeal of those citizens of our own country who think that distinctions can or should be made among the people whose lives were lost or shattered, we are no better or more humane than were the attackers. In fact, this will render us more cruel, as we will thereby sentence certain survivors to privation in the face of their grief due to arbitrary dividing points. Please _do not consider,_ even for a single moment, making designations based upon the sexuality--or any other arbitrary measure of way of life--that pertains to the victims, thus victimizing their survivors further. Thank you for your attention. Sincerely, -- Individual Comment Boston, MA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-04 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 dojA000401.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. 2001-12-04