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. Thursday, December 06, 2001 8:00 PM Victim Compensation Fund On September 11, thousands of people lost their lives in the most tragic of events my generation has known. Countless people have been affected and left to wonder what they will do now. I am writing to express my support of including domestic partners and children of gay/lesbian partnerships in the plan for distributing the fund. Gay/lesbian relationships are no less loving, no less supporting, and no less valid than any other relationship. Those gay/lesbian victims of September would want their families to be included in the Victim Compensation Fund no less than any other victims. Although gays and lesbians do not have the same legal protections as other partnerships, their families should be treated no differently. As one nation--as one human race--we all lost something on September 11. Please do not exclude the families of those gay and lesbian victims. They have suffered as much as anyone else. The pain does not need to be worsened by discriminating against or excluding these families. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-06 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 dojA001230.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. 2001-12-06