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, January 23, 2002 9:37 PM (no subject) I am a member of the Families of September 11, and we represent a large group of fiancées/domestic partners. Since this fund was legislated federally and is distributing federal funds we feel we should be treated equally as spouses (since we all had set wedding dates and our fiancées had already asked us to be their wives/husbands). When this fund was set up by congressional legislation last September it was to compensate not only for earnings and pain/suffering (which we are the only ones who suffered a financial loss), but also for 'loss of companionship", "loss of domestic service" etc. This should apply to us as fiancées /domestic partners as well. We are concerned with the exclusive effect of this proposal. It appears, however, to have been the intention of the Act to limit compensation to "relatives." If this is construed to mean relatives at law, many deserving individuals with close relationships in fact (i.e., co-habiting partners, survivors of engaged couples, step-children, etc.) who are injured survivors will be excluded. The regulations should more broadly define "relative" to include de facto relatives. If we are not taken into account then the money will solely be awarded to the parents of the victim, who were not affected financially. You cannot expect that the parents will "do-the-right-thing" and share the award with their son's/daughter's fiancée/domestic partner. We have already seen many cases where people have already not taken the "morally correct" approach. We need to be recognized because our partners/fiancées had promised to take care of us forever, just as a spouse. A spouse is the first recipient of the fund, and a fiancée/domestic partner should receive the identical rights of a spouse and not be punished because they were cheated out of their wedding. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-23 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 dojP000039.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. 2002-01-23