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, March 12, 2002 1:39 PM Please respond I am writing to ask WHY... & HOW.... could you be so closed minded as to ignore the partners of Gay's who were killed saving possibly YOUR life on 911? You are willing to offer compensation to those partners of illegal aliens that were killed who are heterosexual, and ignore those who are gay partners of Americans. Are you discounting the support that gay's offer to their partners? Are you discounting the fact that these gay persons put their lives on the line to save YOUR life? And, in doing so, put the lives and hearts of their partners into mourning? Ones sexuality does not negate the sacrifice to ones country. Ones sexuality does not negate the pain felt when your loved one is killed in the act well past the line of American Duty. The message you are putting out to the people of your country and to the world is that SOME Americans are expendable, and some are not. Some people have human rights and some do not. If we look back over history, there was another leader who felt this way about his country men. That leader was Hitler. Do you really want to be on the same history pages as Hitler? It amazes me, the lengths some people will go to in order to squelch another's human rights. It is this type of behavior {discriminating against gay partners of those killed on 911} that makes me and countless others ashamed to be called American. Trust me... we will all be voting, and our numbers are large. I look forward to your response. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-12 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 dojR000457.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. 2002-03-12