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, December 05, 2001 5:02 PM Survivor Benefits I believe it is good moral sense to include the partners of gay and lesbian families in survivor benefits. There are many religious belief systems in this great country of ours and although some are not supportive of these families, others are. Still, that is not the point really. The fact is that while these relationships do not have the same legal status, they do meet all the qualities of the truest esseence of family. They are loving, nurturing, supportive and in many cases quite long lasting. As such, the pain, anguish and loss is no less. To argue against survivor support for these poor people is to insult the heroism of the gay and lesbian people who died attempting to help others with this crisis. Let us not play God and determine whose suffering is more valid. Instead, let us seize this moment to show the world that our greatest strengths are not only in our military or government, but in our collective will to do what is right. Compassion and support for ALL suffering Americans would send the right message. God Bless ALL Americans. Individual Comment 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 dojA000976.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