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. Wednesday, March 20, 2002 2:02 PM I hope you feel good about yourselves To whom it may concern: It has recently come to my attention that in your eyes, my natural-born citizenship in this country means less to you than that of a fetus or an illegal alien. Your blatant and horrendous discrimination of the LGBT community in regards to your fund benefits both outrage and appall me. It's nice to know you're perfectly willing to overlook federal law and provide benefits to families of illegal aliens without punishing them, nor fining their employers for illegally employing them, yet you refuse to compensate the families and partners of gay and lesbian victims, people who were damaged emotionally and economically every bit as much as the many other victims of the tragedy. Above all, lesbians and gays are humans, something you're very quick to forget. It is clear you have not considered all of the heroes of the terrible 9-11 attacks. For example, consider &nbsp , a gay man who was among the small group to bring down United Flight 93 over Pennsylvania. Without this group and this man who happened to be gay, that plane would have crashed somewhere even more devastating, thought to be the US Capitol building, killing countless more innocent people. Also, consider &nbsp , also a gay man. While others fled, &nbsp donned his helmet and raced towards the burning towers to give last rites to already-downed firemen. &nbsp , killed by a piece of falling debris, also gave his life to aid others. Perhaps you might also take into account the countless other gay victims of the attacks, such as the &nbsp of the plane that crashed into the &nbsp . However, you have obviously not taken these heroes and victims into consideration, as your staunch anti-gay bias prevails. You remain unwilling to acknowledge lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other such minority Americans. You deny the existence of the pain these victims families are feeling by refusing to compensate their partners, lowering them to less than human status. Kenneth Feinberg implied on NBC that it's really a legal issue, stating, "I can't get into that local battle." This, however, is an obvious lie. Kenneth Feinberg and Attorney General John Ashcroft have already made it clear law does not matter regarding this fund, whether federal or state, by providing benefits to families of illegal aliens and not fining their employers. While I applaud this generous decision, I lambaste and condemn your bigotry, hypocrisy, and lies. How can you in good conscience be so prejudiced in light of such a terrible disaster? Your narrow-mindedness absolutely astounds me. Hasn't this country already seen what poor treatment of others leads to? Hasn't this country had enough hatred already, even from September 11th alone? Why must you continue promoting hatred and bigotry while ironically trying to heal the wounds opened by the very same? It is times like this and people like you that are prone to making me ashamed to be an American. Congratulations on being ignorant, bigoted hatemongers. I hope you feel good about yourselves and the intolerance you spread, not even having the decency to halt your prejudice for the victims of a national tragedy. I am disgusted and revolted by your attitude and your actions. Sincerely, Individual Comment Rochester, NY September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-20 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 dojR002478.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. 2002-03-20