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. Saturday, March 16, 2002 4:02 PM Sexual descrimination Upon reading the information sent to me by a friend of mine in regard to the very high possibility that some of the heroes of September 11th, who are homosexual, will not recieve benefits, or at least will recieve less, it became clear to me that in the United States the separation of chuch and state is a farce idea. Clearly the only true reason for this obvious dissent toward people of a gay persuasion is based on the required religious beliefs of the upper managment of this country. It is my opinion that had these people's sexuality not been disclosed they would most certainly had been hearalded equally with everybody else involved in the heroism. As an American, I am disgusted and outraged. I would venture to say, without a doubt, that if any person in our beloved government was stuck in that building as it was falling to the ground, was being saved by the sheer physical and mental power of a gay firefighter, he or she would immediately suspend all social, political, philosophical and religious beliefs in regard to gays. Wake up! People are alive because of these people. What if these gay heroes stopped at the moment of action and asked the victim about his or her beliefs in regard to gays? Do you think that hero would change his or her mind about bringing that person to safety. I think everybody reading this knows the answer. This is one of the times in history when this government needs to put aside all personal sexual beliefs and give people what they are due. Please use your minds and not your religious and political dogma. Thank you, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-16 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 dojR001075.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. 2002-03-16