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. Saturday, March 16, 2002 6:29 PM September 11 Victim Compensation Fund I have just read, with indignation, if what I read is true, that homosexual partners of some September 11 victims will not receive the same compensation as heterosexual partners of victims. Again, if this is true, it is an outrage. If what is needed is proof of a legal, civil, or religious commitment to the victim, that is clearly denied homosexuals, no matter how hard they try to obtain the right to marry or enter into a legal civil union. Since the state and federal government prohibit that action of legal connection, it only adds insult to injury to further denigrate this group by rejecting its fair claim to legal compensation. I am incredulous. Again, if what I read is true, I only hope that discriminated against partners of victims decide instead to sue and financially shut down the airlines instead! That will be their only recourse left by the 50 States of the Union in denying legal marriage, and the US Government in its ridiculous Defense of Marriage Act. If there are other reasons for denying these partners of US heroes, what can they be? It couldn't possibly be blatant discrimination--that is un-American. Pay them. Give them my tax dollars. My heart goes out to the loved ones, even gay loved ones of our September 11 heroes. May we keep the memories of and alive in our American consciousness. Most sincerely, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-16 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 dojR001173.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. 2002-03-16