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 11, 2001 10:55 AM Administration of Victim's Compensation Fund Kenneth L. Zwick, Director Office of Management Programs U.S. Department of Justice Dear Mr. Zwick: I hereby submit my comments on your request for public input concerning the administration of the September 11th Victim's Compensation Fund. I have read that it is your intent to deny the domestic partners or de facto families this compensation, thereby enforcing your conservative Christian agenda. I am writing to urge you to include unmarried heterosexual partners and gay/lesbian domestic partners in the compensation. Our pain is no less. Our families are just as real. Our losses leave just as much grief in our lives as those in so-called "traditional" marriages. I am a United Airlines employee. I have a domestic partner. On our airplanes and the airplanes of American Airlines were members of the gay games ( ) who had a domestic partner of 6 years ( was one of the men thought to have assisted in overcoming the hijackers on United flight 93), a member of the gay pilots association on American Airlines; gay flight attendants on United, two male partners who had adopted an infant (the infant perished on the United flight) and on and on. We were part of America's tragedy and heroism as well as hetersexual people. I urge the Justice Department to administer the Victim's Compensation Fund to include those who lost their life partners as well as de facto parents or children, without regard to sexual orientation or marital status. I ask the U.S. Government to follow the example already set by New York Governor Pataki in 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 deserves help in this time of need." Please do the right thing here. Please urge Mr. Ashcroft not to use his Christian belieft to deny these benefits to the survivors of this attack. I am a Christian too, raised in a fundamentalist Missionary Baptist family. I may be able to discriminate against people with whom I morally disagree in my church or parochial school, but in a democracy where everyone pays taxes alike, it is not fair to discriminate based on my moral understanding. Please ask Mr Ashcroft not to his conservative Christian personal beliefs to impose further hardship on these survivors. Thank you, Individual Comment Aurora CO September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-11 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 dojA001217.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. 2001-12-11