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. Sunday, March 17, 2002 4:06 PM Treatment Unfair Hello, I'm writing to you in order that I may politely express my deep feelings regarding Victim's Compensation and the September 11 Fund. If the government is willing to overlook citizenship status in compensating victims, then this program should certainly overlook domestic-partner status as well. Does the United States recognize a marriage performed outside the United States for people who do not hold citizenship in the United States? In other words, what if my partner and I married in The Netherlands or in Sweden (where same-sex marriage is legal), and what if he died in the Twin Towers? Would I THEN be able to get "compensated"? By extending compassion in the form of compensation to non-citizens of the U.S. and by denying this compassion to its own citizens, what message do you send? I'll tell you the message you send: "queer American" is an oxymoron. We serve in your military. We protect your nation. We administer last rights to dying firefighters. We are firefighters, cops, chaplains, pilots. We are your neighbors. We are born here. We die here. We don't deserve to be reduced to petty monetary squabblings. We don't expect you to treat our love, or our being, as second-rate, as invisible, as anything less than American. That's why your indefensible ruling on this matter hurts so very, very much. Yours, Individual Comment A queer American in Houston, Texas September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-17 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 dojR001473.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. 2002-03-17