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 19, 2002 10:29 AM 9-11 victim compensation fund To whom it may concern: I have been following with interest and a growing sense of outrage that our government has chosen to defer to existing state law where survivor benefits are concerned. Many gay folks died that horrible day in September leaving partners, families, homes and other things undone as did their non-gay counterparts. How dare the government, MY government, determine that "their own state" knows what's best, when the federal government has no problem telling the individual states about things such as taxes, highway funding, medicinal marijuana and the like. My gay dollars went to support all those victims and their families, never thinking for one moment that I would have been discriminated against had this tragedy hit closer to home. It is patently WRONG to defer to the states in this instance, when the federal government has the opportunity to bridge the gap and assist in healing ALL of America, not just STRAIGHT America. Divide the funds evenly, or provide a formula for me to receive reimbursement for that part of my donations that will be going to non-gay victims and their families. Sincerely, Individual Comment Deptford, NJ September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-19 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 dojR002159.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. 2002-03-19