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. Monday, March 18, 2002 9:49 AM 9/11 Fund Compensation Awards I am writing to express my concern over the comments made recently by Kenneth Zwick regarding the potential of payments being made to partners and families of gay and lesbian victims. It seems that if you're bending the law to include illegal aliens and their families, you should not USE the law as a way to discriminate against gays and lesbians. Using state law as your guide is not a fair way to determine the eligibility of victims' families for money that has been received from around the country and the world. Many of those donations have come from gay and lesbian donors, some of whom have been personally touched by this tragedy, most of whom haven't, but are showing their support and their patriotism toward the 90% of the population that are straight AND the 10% who are gay. Please reconsider using state law as your guide; the states have NOTHING to do with this issue. Please do use the same compassion that is driving you to ignore federal law in some cases to include people who have committed to their partners within a system that doesn't ALLOW them to be legally recognized. Thank you for your attention. Individual Comment St Louis Park, MN September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-18 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 dojR001712.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. 2002-03-18