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. Saturday, March 23, 2002 5:06 PM discrimination Dear Ladies and Gentlemen: First and foremost I would like to say that I am a proud United States citizen. Proud indeed of the fact that my country as overcome such turmoil and evil as to what prevailed on that unforgettable day, September 11, 2001. I am thankful for the fact that in such a time, the citizens of the United States have come together as one and stood against this war on America. As our president has been quoted as saying "we must come together" and that we did. We have not let prejudices and racist individuals stand in the way of what makes us a "united" country. However, I must say how disgusted and shocked I am to see that a person's courage and wisdom in such a time of need, will not be honored under this fund which has been established. Why will he/she not be honored? Because he/she is a homosexual in the United States of America. A proud, free, United States citizen who was indeed a homosexual. Let us not forget that it was he/she that saved our country. Let us not forget it was he/she that did not care whether you were straight or gay and stood up to those terrorists on that flight to save our anti-gay, free, united, country that we are proud to call America. How dare anyone be judged for who they are at such a time. I am embarrassed for each and every one of you who does not think that we are all "united" under this country. Disagreement may prevail from this last sentence. However, if we were truely a "united" country, we as citizens would not let prejudice individuals stop us from allowing each and every hero of that horrible day be honored. And yet we are willing to bend the law for illegal aliens, yet we would not supply our American citizens with compensation due to the fact of their sexuality. I am very proud of each and every United States citizen who stood up that day to terrorists and who saved our country. I do not care whether they were white, black, gay, straight, catholic, jewish, or christian. I care that they stood up to terror and whether our country wants to recognize these gay heroes or not, I recognize them. How dare we as citizens allow people to be prejudice in such a horrible time. How dare we! I was extremely disgusted when i heard about this prejudice against homosexuals once again. I hope that in the future we will truely realize that we are all free in this country and that we can all work together as one to make this a true United States of America. Sincerely, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-23 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 dojR002699.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. 2002-03-23