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 1:59 PM September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Discrimination I have just read a column by that made my jaw drop. I refer you to this URL: http://uspolitics.about.com/library/weekly/aa031102a.htm. summarized the appearance on the Sunday, March 10 broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press" of Kenneth Feinberg, the head of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Feinberg said that domestic partners of gay people who died in the September 11th attacks will not be eligible for the same compensation as heterosexual family members who lost their loved ones. This is bad enough, but then he said that the Attorney General has promised undocumented aliens that if they come forward to claim a benefit, they will get a check as compensation for their lost family member. Relatives of people who were in violation of federal law will be compensated by the same government whose laws their loved one broke. When it comes to gay people who died, and their survivors, however, Feinberg conveniently falls back on a states' rights argument to exclude the survivors from being compensated. Feinberg claims that this policy is meant to avoid lawsuits. I hope and expect that he'll get lawsuits anyway from those everyway-but-legal family members of gay people who died that day. Does Feinberg forget that , a gay man, was one of those who prevented United Flight 93 from crashing into government buildings in Washington, D.C.? That the of American Airlines flight 77 was a gay may who may have left behind a grieving partner? That , a gay priest, died while giving aid to a wounded fireman? And these are just a few of the gay victims whose deaths have been publicized. This policy is a slap in the face to ordinary Americans who did extraordinary things on September 11th. To place illegal aliens ahead of United States citizens when awarding this compenstation is ludicrous and insulting. The federal government spends my gay tax dollars just as freely as anyone else's, and I expect to see those dollars distributed to all victims equally. 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 dojR000628.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