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 10:14 AM September 11 Victim Compensation Fund To Whom It May Concern - I was very disappointed and quite angry to find out that the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund set up by Congress is advocating discrimination against gays and lesbians affected by the tragedy. I hope that your offices are inundated with mail and e-mail sent by other Americans who vehemently oppose your actions, because what you are doing is unfair and un-American! How can you offer benefits to illegal aliens - and promise not to prosecute either those individuals nor their employers for breaking the law - yet you deny benefits to partners of gay Americans?? How can you give funds to unborn babies but not life-long partners? I was so proud of my country in the aftermath of September 11th, because it seemed for once we were all Americans - not African-Americans or gay-Americans or Latino-Americans. I'm very sad to find that, in this instance, Congress is clearly stating that some people are more "worthy" of benefits than others. The heterosexual victims of September 11th have that piece of paper - the marriage license - which identifies them as the survivor. Homosexuals don't have the same rights as heterosexuals - they have no "proof" of their couplehood because the current laws (Vermont excluded) deny civil unions to gays. Imagine how much worse the financial situation might be for some of those folks. Imagine then being told that your partner, lover, and best friend doesn't count because of your sexuality. This is blatant discrimination and it is NOT RIGHT. I sincerely pray that God will open your minds to what is the right thing to do in this instance. You can't call &nbsp or &nbsp "heros" one day and then imply that their lifestyle justifies the irresponsible appropriation of funds that is being done with the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund. May God Bless you and open your hearts and minds with His loving grace for ALL. Sincerely, Individual Comment 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 dojR002334.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