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. Tuesday, March 19, 2002 7:46 AM Dear Madam/Sir I am just writing to say how unbelievably shocked and saddened I am to hear that lesbian and gay partners of those killed on September 11th will not automatically receive the same benefits as other heterosexual families.  I understand that you are leaving it up to each individual state to decide but this seems to be a bit baffling.  The government has made an exception for illegal aliens and companies who hired them and yet it is unwilling to make an exception for lesbian and gay partners.  Mr Feinberg said that "Gays and lesbians are left out of my program to the extent that their own state doesn't include them". Well, as I understand it, each state also has laws against illegal aliens and yet Mr Feinberg is willing to overlook and overide this law because of the nature of this event.  Why is Mr Feinberg unwilling to do the same for lesbians and gays who are US citizens?  In this day and age, I find the homophobia of our government most disturbing.  Considering how many gay heroes there were in the September 11th tragedy, the government should be ashamed of excluding the partners of these hereos and the partners of other ordiary citizens who were killed in this tragedy. I hope you will reconsider your views for the sake of all Amercians. Sincerely yours Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-19 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 dojR002044.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. 2002-03-19