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 10:27 AM Victim Compensation Fund I want to express my outrage, my hurt at the anti-gay bias in the distribution of September 11th Victim Compensation Funds. I just want to remind those involved that someone they know and care about is gay. You may not know who, may be surprised at who they are, but you know and interact with them, possibly every day. Would you treat your son, daughter, parent, cousin, niece, nephew, aunt or uncle this way? Think about your circle of family and friends and consider the stab in their hearts as you take this action. Brave people died in this terrible tragedy. Gay people, out and closeted, died; gay people who were parents, children, spouses, partners, brothers and sisters; gay people who were loved. To support bias, bigotry and hatred raising the banner of religion as our foundation, rally cry or excuse, flies in the face of the freedoms our forefathers worked so hard to create including the right to be free of a government whose laws were based solely on religious grounds, and the right to pursue happiness. Or to throw up your hands in powerlessness to debatable laws and use them as crutches that support bias and bigotry and discrimination of any sort - that is not what our country is made of. Worse still, it smacks of the same intolerance that breeds monsters like those that perpetrated this horrible event. On September 11th, our beliefs were attacked, our belief that all humans are equal and our moral obligation to stand up for the underdog. Do not let them destroy our values. Do not subscribe to their discriminatory fervor to foster a spark of hatred for any group of people. So I encourage those who can make this decision to stand up for all of the victims and those that relied on them and loved them. Stand up for what they know in their hearts is the right thing to do. Show the world that in the United States there are no second-class citizens. 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 dojR002337.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