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 9:49 PM Discrimination against gays Mr Feinberg, I would like to take this opportunity to express my outrage at the discrimination displayed by the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund against the gay and lesbian heroes of the tradegy that befell our nation. You claim that you cannot go against state laws, and that equal compensation to ALL victims would do just that. Yet, you have no problem bending United States laws in your compensations for illegal alien. I fail to see the justice in this. How can you place certain victims into second-class status just because of their sexuality? Does it make them lesser heroes? September 11th brought the nation together as one. Differences did not matter any more. We are all Americans. Yet, through this discrimination you dividing this country once again. You are telling the people of this great nation that yes, you are all Americans, except for this one group - they are lesser Americans and do not deserve the same treatment. This should be a time where we look beyond race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. I am ashamed to have giving my money to this fund. If there were a way, I would take it back. Through the discrimination against gays and lesbians, the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund has become decidedly anti-American. The discrimination you show will only cause more discrimination, which will lead to more hatred. If you call yourself American, you will stop tearing this country apart. 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 dojR001256.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