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 5:19 PM Disappointing actions by the Compensation Fund To whom it may concern: I am not an activist, a politician or a public policy guru.  Nonetheless, I write to express my outrage over the 9/11 Compensation Fund's blatant discrimination against gays and lesbians.  As a highly-educated, gay American, who is at one of the nation's top law schools, it is evident to me that the Fund's "concern" over being in conflict with state laws is a smokescreen.  It is just one more method of discrimination against a large minority population in the United States; a population against whom the right-wing supporters of this administration actively support and condone violence and hatred.  This political move by the 9/11 Compensation Fund does more to promote hatred and discrimination against gays and lesbians than clearly anyone in the administration has thought about.  What it says to the American public is that of all the groups in this nation, this one group does not deserve the benefits to which other Americans -- and shockingly even non-American illegals -- are entitled.  Because of this decision, the administrators of the fund are complicit in future violence against gays and lesbians in this country.  You have singled us out and said that we are not worthy of the moneys and support from the fund simply because of who we love.  Recently, when my 83-year-old grandmother in rural Illinois heard about this despicable decision of the fund, she sent me an e-mail and said "Don't worry.  Most people don't feel this way in the aftermath of 9/11.  These people who run the fund are out of touch with reality.  They will have to change their views."  I only hope that she proves right.  Until then, the administrators of the 9/11 fund should be ashamed of themselves, and live with the knowledge that they have PERSONALLY promoted and endorsed violence and hatred against gays and lesbians.  This is certainly not the American way, and therefore it is a disgrace that these hateful people were put in charge of administering the fund that is compensating the hundreds of thousands of people who were affected by that horrible day -- a fund that is compensating whites and blacks, latinos, arabs and asians, men and women, children, unborn children, old people, husbands and wives, and even illegal immigrants and their families, but NOT gay and lesbian Americans. With diminishing faith in this nation, Individual Comment Arlington, VA 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 dojR001123.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