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, March 14, 2002 1:38 PM Extend benefits to partners of gay & lesbian victims To Whom it Concerns: Is it really true that your fund is discriminating against the same sex partners of gays and lesbians who died in the 9/11 attacks? I'm not sure I can believe it. I'm sure you are aware what a hero was, thought to help bring down that airliner in a Pennsylvania field (which is thought to have been heading for the U.S. Congress). Perhaps you also know that there was a gay male couple and their three-year-old child on one of the other planes. There were undoubtedly several other gay and lesbian passengers on those four planes. To deny surviving partners monetary assistance when you are giving such aid to surviving spouses of heterosexual couples - and even to illegal aliens as I understand it - is not only unfair and mean, it's immoral. Surely there is enough money to go around to help those in need. I urge you to reconsider this short-sighted policy you are following and amend it at once to include just compensation for all victims of the 9/11 attacks. Please let me know what you intend to do about this situation. Best regards, Individual Comment Los Angeles September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-14 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 dojR000768.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. 2002-03-14