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. Friday, March 15, 2002 1:56 PM Sept. 11 Fund To Whom it May Concern, I am writing to express my sadness and shame as a United States citizen that the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund (the "Sept. 11 Fund") has chosen to discriminate against gays and lesbians by refusing to provide benefits to the domestic partners. There is no justification for this decision; all victims of the Sept. 11 tragedy should be treated equally. I believe that the Sept. 11 Fund should provide the same benefits to domestic partners as it does to the spouses of heterosexual victims. Cetainly the children of any of the gay or lesbian victims should be treated the same as the children of heterosexuals. I find the decision of the Sept. 11 Fund particularly disturbing given the context of the attack. Religous fanaticism, which includes prohibitions against homosexual relationships, is deplorable. It is truly tragic that, in seeking to compensate the victims of religious fanatics, the Sept. 11 Fund is perpetuating the same evil that has cost so many lives and caused such great pain and sorrow to our nation and the world. Sincerely, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-15 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 dojR000852.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. 2002-03-15