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 4:49 PM victim's fund Hello, My name is and I have become aware recently of the inequity of financial help available to families of victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks. I am deeply saddened and outraged at the recent statement made by Kenneth Feinberg on Meet the Press that he will defer to state governments in terms of whether domestic partners of gay and lesbian victims of the 9/11 tragedy will receive any kind of compensation. As you know, there is no federal law protecting domestic partners although they pay the same taxes as heterosexuals, contribute to society, and even were recognized as playing an instrumental part in the 9/11 events ( , NY Fire Department ). It is an injustice, on top of such suffering, to deny compensation or benefits of any kind to domestic partners of gay and lesbian victims, who are not eligible for social security benefits, survivor's insurance and other compensations allowed to heterosexual couples. I ask you to direct Mr. Feinberg to make an exception for domestic partners in the same way the 9/11 fund made an exception for families of undocumented persons. Please do not contribute to further victimization by leaving these families more vulnerable after the tragic loss of their loved ones. Sincerely, Individual Comment San Francisco, CA 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 dojR002039.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