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. Kenneth Feinberg Department of Justice Washington, DC 205 March 13, 2002 Dear Mr. Feinberg, Your position on compensation of gay victims of the 9/11/02 tragedy is a travesty. You have implied that if state law discriminates against gay people, then so will you and the 911 Fund. The problem for gay Americans who lost loved ones on 9/11 is that most states do not legally recognize gay relationships, and the very few that do tend to do so only for state employees, not for citizens at large. And while a handful of cities do in fact recognize such relationships, under your formula, its's the state law that counts, not the city's. So in the end, pretty much everyone who died - including people who aren't American citizens and were living in the US illegally - will be honored by the 911 Fund as deserving of American's special recognition and thanks. The sole exception will be gay and lesbian Americans, because you and t he 911 Fund wouldn't want to do anything contrary to US law. On the six-month anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, you and the 911 Fund are telling the American people that regardless of whether a gay man was one of the four heroes on United Flight 93 who saved US Congress and the White House from utter annihilation, the 911 Fund plans to discriminate against an American hero ( ) because most of the country sanctioned such discrimination prior to September 11th. If September 11 has taught us anything, it's that our patriotism and love of country transcend our differences and unite us all. It would be ironic if the generosity of so many Americans in giving to the 911 Fund were used to further divide us as a people, and send the message to all that some American heroes are more equal than others. PLEASE THINK SERIOUSLY ABOUT THIS UNJUST SITUATION. PLEASE DO THE RIGHT, COMPASSIONATE THING. Thank you. Sincerely, Individual Comment New York, NY September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-13 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 dojR002912.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. 2002-03-13