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 7:26 PM Compensate gay partners I am appalled at the exclusion of partners of gay and lesbians from 9/11 compensation by the government. This is simply blatant discrimination. I do not object to the awarding of compensation to families of illegal aliens, but there is certainly a flaw in your 'logic." You say you will not violate state law by recognizing gay relationships if the victim's state does not--but if you are simply following the law, how can you compensate illegal aliens, people who are not here legally, who do not pay taxes, who are in fact defined by their illegal status. Please understand, I am not urging you to exclude illegal aliens, I am instead urging you to exercise consistency, compassion, and justice, by compensating the partners and nonbiological children of gay and lesbian victims of the terrorist attacks. (I wonder if you have thought about the children in these relationships. Many gays and lesbians are co-parenting but are not allowed to adopt the children of their partners. Are these children excluded from compensation as well?) Gays and lesbians pay taxes, gave generously to 9/11 charities, and are equally devestated by the attacks. Gay and lesbian partners hurt as much as straight families both emotionally and financially. Please do not denigrate the memories and lives of gay and lesbian victims and heroes of the attacks by forgetting their loved ones. Maybe their relationships were not "legal" in the eyes of the law, but the relationships were no less committed than those of married ccitizens and illegal aliens. 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 dojR001195.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