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. Wednesday, March 13, 2002 1:51 PM Exclusion of Gays from Benefits Dear Mr. Feinberg: I am disgusted that you have effectively excluded the survivors of gay and lesbian Americans who died on 9/11 from receiving benefits due them from the 9/11 Compensation Fund. It is completely unacceptable for you to defer to state law on this issue. This is not a state issue. It is a federal issue. You are fully aware that only two states have laws that recognize gay partnerships. Your deferral to state law is clearly nothing more than a thin fabrication to avoid responsibility for your morally sadistic decision to dishonor the survivors of gay men and women. Your decision brings to mind too clearly the decision of some of the commanders of the allied troops which liberated the concentration camps after the Nazi collapse. They ordered that gay concentration camp victims be held in the camps - among the smoldering and rotting dead - because under German law their homosexuality made them common criminals. That decision was fairly quickly reversed, and I hope you will soon reverse yours. Yours Sincerely Individual Comment San Diego CA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-13 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 dojR000616.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. 2002-03-13