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. Green Brook, NJ 1/28/02 President George W. Bush White House Washington, DC Dear President Bush, Recently I sent you an emailed message which went unanswered, so I thought to fax this letter. In the September 11 attack on the WTC my fiancee, , perished on the floor of tower 1, where she worked as a registered nurse for . We had a long loving relationship of 11 years and we had planned to be married very shortly after the incident. There are many domestic partners and/or fiancees who suffered the loss of their loved ones in this attack. Our suffering is as great as that of a spouse and our suffering is compounded for lack of official recognition. The Victims Compensation Fund was legislated by Congress with Federal funding to compensate those who lost their loved ones in the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. Mr ken Feinberg, the Special Master, was sympathetic, but indicated that he will not recognize domestic partners or fiancees when distributing the funds. He said in our recent meeting in New Jersey that he was going to follow the laws of the domicile when it comes to who will get compensated. Mr. Feinberg bases some decisions on the law of the state (domicile) and federal guidelines for other decisions. We feel that he should recognize domestic partners since they make up a family unit. We understand that he can use his discretion for this decision and include us in the compensation. Most public officials are in agreement on this point. We urge you to support us in giving the fiancees, domestic partners and/or same sex partners the same right to collect from the Victims Compensation Fund as the spouses. Thank you in advance for giving this letter your highest consideration. I look forward to hearing from you very soon. Respectively yours, Individual Comment Green Brook, NJ September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-28 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 dojP000303.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. 2002-01-28