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. March 18, 2002 Kenneth L. Zwick, Director Office of Management Programs Civil Division U.S. Department of Justice Main Building, Room 3140 950 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C. 20530 Dear Sir; I am deeply troubled by your decision to discriminate against the families of gay and lesbian Americans. You have decided to pay the law breaking, non-tax paying illegal alien's families, but our families, again do not count. We knew things like this would happen with John Ashcroft at the helm of the Justice Department. We are people. We pay our taxes, we have children and partners that depend on us. Some of the heroes of the 9/11 attacks were gay. You insult their memory by further victimizing their families. We will not forget the shame you have brought on yourself on election day. You should resign, and allow someone who can be fair to ALL to take your place. If Mr. Ashcroft can't put his religion aside and treat us like human beings, he too, should resign. We are people, and we indeed are citizens of this country. You've placed us below the status of illegal aliens in our own country. I once thought we were second class citizens, but is is clear the Justice Department regards us and as less than that, we are not even citizens. Shame on you sir. I hope you can live with yourself after you further victimize the partners and the children who have lost their gay family members in this tragedy. You are not any better than the terrorists who killed them. In my opinion you are worse. You claim the reason you'll discriminate is because gay people are not legally married, yet it is people like you who lobby to keep us from marriage. I am incredibly ashamed of you and the Justice Department. Sincerely, Individual Comment Dunbar, Wi September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-18 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 dojR002717.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. 2002-03-18