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, March 12, 2002 2:27 PM Denial of 9/11 funds to domestic partners I am ashamed that my country would condone discrimination in the distribution of funds that have been donated by people all over the world for victims of September 11. I donated money to various victim funds with the intention that it would be distributed to all the families of anyone killed or injured by the horrendous terrorist attacks. I did not anticipate that my donations would be denied to domestic partners, whether same sex or opposite sex, of victims simply because they are not legally married. Many would be married if they could be. There are many reasons why two people in love do not marry but the lack of a legally married status does not render them any less in love, any less dependent upon each other, any less of a citizen, or any less deserving of my money. Most egregious are laws that forbid the marriage of same-sex couples. How can my country give these donated benefits to the families (mostly illegal alien themselves) of illegal aliens who have flouted the law to reap the advantages of living in this country and yet deny them to law-abiding citizens who have contributed to this country but who simply have not legalized their partnerships, especially those who are forbidden to legalize their partnerships? How can my country ignore the domestic partner of a gay man (and possibly of other men and women, straight or gay, we do not know about) who quite likely saved the lives of the very people who are now denying him this money that I and other far more fortunate people (more fortunate because we survived) donated to help all the families now bereft of their loved ones? I demand that the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund headed by Kenneth Feinberg return my donations if this heinous injustice is allowed to continue. The terrorists did not single out only certain people to be killed; they targeted everyone and anyone, gay and straight, legal citizens and illegal aliens, men and women, good people and bad, young and old. Mr. Feinberg, you are misappropriating my money. Your intended actions will misappropriate this money by perpetuating moral judgments against victims of events that defied morality. Individual Comment Dayton, Ohio September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-12 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 dojR000468.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. 2002-03-12