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 11, 2002 2:57 PM Ridiculous I find the stand that the 911 fund has taken as utterly ridiculous on the issue of gay and lesbian survivors of the 9-11 attacks. Gay and Lesbian citizens of the United States are just that: citizens of the United States. Wasn't the fund was set up to aid survivors of people lost in those attacks? If a person can show financial dependence on another person who was lost and therefore request aid, WHO ARE YOU TO SAY THAT RELATIONSHIP WAS NOT VALID? To deny same sex partners aid based on law and break the law by extending aid to illegal aliens is hypocrisy. Taking the side of state law on this issue is the coward's way out. Fight, stand up and do the right thing. Same sex couples can not get married, they can not stand up and say "I do" in the government's eyes, so people who met and were married 1 hour have exponentially more legal protections when they lose that loved one. Is that right? Would it not be more fair to ask people to show there is now more financial hardship since their loss? This would cover anyone, gay or straight who really needs financial help. I'll leave you with this thought. Gay and Lesbian people are numerous in this country, they tend to be civic minded and they tend to support social justice. How many hundreds of thousands of dollars now in your fund came directly from Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered individuals to aid survivors whether they be black or white, conservative, married, illegal alien, straight or gay, bigoted or not? You don't know? Neither do I, but it sure seems to me there are a lot of good reasons to cover us too. Individual Comment Minneapolis, MN September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-11 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 dojR000208.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. 2002-03-11