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. Friday, December 07, 2001 4:16 PM Equal Rights for All To: Mr. Kenneth L. Zwick, Director Office of Management Programs U.S. Department of Justice I am writing today to ask you to stop the discrimination being done to the gay and lesbian people by our government. In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. Justice Department established the "September 11 Victim Compensation Fund." The purpose of this fund is to provide assistance to persons who were injured as a result of the attacks and to compensate the relatives of those who were killed. The U.S. Department of Justice wants to know how the funds should be administered and distributed. I strongly encourage you to let them know to listen to all the voices of the people who were affected by the loss of their loved ones. Whether, that voice is straight or someone of an alternative lifestyle. These voices still need to be heard. I would like to remind the U.S. Justice Department officials that justice is only served only when all families be straight or not, who were impacted by September 11 are treated with equality, justice and respect and compensated for the loss of their loved one. Once again I ask the Justice Department to include among relatives eligible for compensation those who lost their life partners as well as defacto parents or children, without regard to sexual orientation or marital status. A great example for you all to follow is already set forth by New York Governor Pataki who is granting compensation benefits "on a showing of mutual interdependence with the victim, in recognition that anyone who shared with the victim living expenses, day-to-day activities and the emotional bonds of family deserve this help in this time of need." Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-07 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 dojA001307.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. 2001-12-07