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 11:33 AM Gay Partners of Sept. 11th Victims I understand that you are hesitant to deal with the realities that surviving gay partners from 9/11 may present but instead of just outright denying their needs because some of them had been "married" (for all intents and purposes) for some time apparently, some creative thinking may be required. Instead of just denying them access to aid, across the board, at least require proof of "interdependency" (mortgage, apartment lease, joint loans, car leases,etc.). It just doesn't seem right to de-value their deceased partners by excluding them from the aid funds. No one excluded when they were gathering "troops" to storm the cabin! No discrimination there! For all the tragedy we all experienced on Sept. 11th, we came away from the devastation, a stronger nation united and not divided. The action of denying benefits to partners of gays killed on 9/11 will do nothing but re-open a chasm in this country that 9/11 actually healed to a great extent. It's not always easy to do the difficult or perhaps even unpopular thing, but it's always right to do the fair thing. Thank you for your consideration. Individual Comment Philadelphia, PA 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 dojR000753.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