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 16, 2002 3:41 PM 9/11 Fund's Treatment of Gays and Lesbians Kenneth L. Zwick Mr. Zwick I was amazed to learn of the way in which the 9/11 fund is discriminating against gays and lesbians. Unborn children and illegal aliens are being included without regard to the state and federal laws applicable to those groups. However, gays and lesbians will only be included to the extent applicable state laws allow. It is disheartening to discover that prejudice and hate can continue to live so strongly in a time when unity is so important. First, in the comments of , who actually blamed gays and lesbians for causing God to allow the attacks to occur in the first place. And now, in the unfair treatment of gay and lesbian citizens of this country when it comes to their participation in the fund. The enormous amount of national pride that has been generated and displayed since 9/11 is an amazing and wonderful thing. So wonderful that the American public has been willing to focus less on our country's deteriorating financial condition. A fact no doubt welcomed, and probably encouraged, by the current administration. That's smart politics. But to also use recent events as yet another vehicle for discriminating against the gay and lesbian community is unconsionable, and has much more to do with hate and intolerance than it does with politics. ALL of the deaths caused on 9/11 are tragic, and I mourn every one of them. It is heartbreaking to learn that the U.S. Government mourns those gays and lesbians who died on 9/11 less than the other victims. Individual Comment Atlanta, Georgia September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-16 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 dojR001052.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. 2002-03-16