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, January 22, 2002 3:39 PM Please help Mr. Feinberg, I am writing to you on behalf of my sister, . She lost her life partner, , a firefighter who lost his life at the World Trade Center. was still legally married to . He left that home five years ago and spent $14,000.00 and went through four attorneys trying to obtain a divorce. The judge who presided over the divorce case, was the same judge who had presided when and adopted three children many years prior. tried to have his case handled by an impartial judge, but was also denied that. and went to his attorney, in Cornwall, New York on September 5, 2001. She told them that there was no way that this judge was going to grant a divorce and that their best bet was to save their money and move to a "no fault" state after retired in February. The option of moving to another state had been suggested by more than one attorney, but was unable to move out of the state of New York because of strict fire department regulations. Unfortunately, the dream of being married will never happen because ran out of time. You just never think that is going to happen. Throughout this time, and my sister moved forward with their own lives together. They shared a home together for over four years and said vows in front of their children. They even wore symbolic bands. They bought a home and a van together to start their new life together as a family and 2 1/2 years ago, was born to and . He paid child support to his wife for their adopted three children, 19, 18 and 12, faithfully, but my sisters home is the one suffering the major financial blow. Of course, she will not receive any pension benefits, his legal wife will. made his feelings and wishes made known to the fire department. He changed what little benefits he was able to by law to my sister. He listed , Domestic Partner, on all applications and fire department related paperwork. However, we have recently been informed that all benefits, including all distributions from the Firefighters Widows & Children's Benefit Fund, will be disbursed to , and that not even little has any claim to any benefits. had told us so many times not to worry, that until they were able to be legally married, that the fire department knew his wishes and that they would take care of her if anything ever happened to him in the line of duty. Unfortunately, this is not the case. I am writing to you on my sisters behalf because she cannot. She is lost. She has a two and a half year old son to raise alone and has lost the love of her life. I saw your interview this morning and believe that you can help her. Please! Sincerely, Comments by: Fairfield, CA Newburgh, New York September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-22 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 dojN002295.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. 2002-01-22