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, March 13, 2002 10:17 PM Equal for all Greetings, I am reading about the possibility that partners of the gay and lesbian victims of September 11 will NOT be equally (if at all) compensated in the way that heterosexual family members of 9/11 victims will be. I hope to God this is not the case, because to rate some people as more deserving or more American than others for reasons of sexual orientation is completely unfair, and domestic terrorism at its worst. You know darn well the laws are far behind the realities, and do not recognize gay couples as married and therefore you can't cop out by saying Well if the state doesn't recognize you as a couple then neither can we... September 11 changed a lot of perspectives and broke into new territory and took risks, this damn well better be one of those times. You can do a little bit of homework -- and chances are their partners would do it for you -- proving a committed relationship, proving a life together, whether it is the same residence, changed / shared last names, children, beneficiary listings, healthcare proxies, wills, and many many many other ways that clearly indicate who the life partner of the 9/11 hero was. These people left behind have been through unspeakable tragedy already, but to then be ignored as if that relationship was less central than any other widow or widower's is completely heartless. Do you not see that? If you need volunteers to help you organize how to distribute funding fairly to ALL the partners of the 9/11 tragedy, I'm sure you need only to ask. President George W. Bush said if you do not side with Freedom, then you are siding with Terrorism. Well, whose side ARE you on??? Sincerely, Individual Comment Massachusetts September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-13 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 dojR000703.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. 2002-03-13