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. Thursday, March 21, 2002 2:10 PM > > To President Bush, Attorney General Ashcroft, the September 11th Fund: > > My name is &nbsp and I work as a nurse and a teacher in New York > City . I am saddenned by the response of the Attorney General John > Ashcroft, President George W. Bush and the September 11th fund in their > exclusionary policy towards the gay and lesbian victim's and their > families. I am shocked that we could have generated such an exclusionary > policy after an event that brought Americans together like never before in > my lifetime. I'm 36. I have been volunteering since September 11th in > the capacity of nurse and also helping manage the relief project at &nbsp . > I have met so many wonderful people from all over the > country through my involvement over the past 6 months. > > Words cannot express my disappointment at the decision to exclude gay and > lesbian people from the September 11th fund distributions. How can we > pull the country apart at a time like this by deaming the gay and lesbian > community as less worthy of these benefits than their straight recipients? > This is the year 2002 and September 11th occurred only 6 months ago. The > unifiying force in this country is already being pulled apart by prejudice > and homophobia such a short time after this event. I am numb as I write > this. I am numb with disappointment. I urge you to reconsider your > position and to include gay and lesbian family benefits, equal to those of > any other family unit, as is rightfully theirs. Please set aside > homophobia and demonstrate that this country's pride is based in inclusion > and not exclusion of it's inhabitants. This is a crucial and long-lasting > decision. The harm that is occurring from this exclusionary policy is > already enormous and will continue to grow. Please afford the deserved > respect also to those who donated to the 9/11 fund by fairly and equitably > distributing its resources. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-21 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 dojR002544.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. 2002-03-21