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. Tuesday, March 12, 2002 11:49 AM 9/11 benefits To whom it may concern: please forward this message to Kenneth Feinberg I have recently learned that the 9/11 fund will not compensate families of gay and lesbian victims of the September 11 attacks. I am deeply outraged by this. Horrified would perhaps be a better word. My partner and I are as married as we can possibly be: we have been together for eight years and travelled to Vermont for a civil union, the only legal union permitted to us in the U.S. We provide each other with daily emotional, financial, and practical support. As a couple we have outlasted the "legal" marriages of some of our straight friends. Why in the world should the destruction of such a family through terrorism be viewed as any less tragic? Please do not hide behind the excuse that state law may not recognize our marriages. At one time interracial marriage was illegal in some states but not others; if that were still the case, would you have ordered compensation only to same-race spouses of the victims? Believe me, the decision to exclude same-sex partners is exactly the moral equivalent of such hateful discrimination. It is the sort of policy I would expect of Al-Qaida, not of my own supposedly democratic and compassionate government. PLEASE DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER TO ENSURE FAIRNESS IN THIS MATTER. Very sincerely yours,Individual Comment Northampton, MA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-12 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 dojR000412.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. 2002-03-12