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. Thursday, March 21, 2002 5:06 PM Compensate survivors of ALL 9/11 Victims My life partner served the United States as an officer in the USAF in Saudi Arabia. She retired from the military and has been in graduate school getting a PhD in Public Health. She has always had a strong interest in bioterrorism. Since 9/11, she has been approached by several federal agencies, as well as state and local agencies, asking for her help in policy and prevention planning for bioterrorism attacks. She is a very patriotic American. Because of the events of 9/11, she has made it her life-long mission to work to protect American lives from any and all types of terrorist activities. She is also a lesbian. It is shocking that our government would be so callous as to provide compensation to the families of illegal aliens and FETUSES lost during the events of 9/11, and not provide compensation to the survivors/domestic partners of the many gays and lesbians lost that day. Some of those lost were heroes such as . Some of them were among the many rescue workers who rushed into the WTC towers to rescue civilians, and were then killed themselves. The events of 9/11 were unparalelled in history. Our contry has had to make changes in the way we operate on so many levels. Why not make a bold and brave step and compensate domestic partners of the gay and lesbian vicitims? It would not necessarily set a precedent. I pray that we NEVER would have to consider making compensation for a disaster of this kind again. These victims were loved, and lost. The sense of loss is no less painful, simply because the victims were gay. But the callous exemption of their survivors in this case is adding enormous insult to injury. It sets a precedent for treating gays and lesbians, even in the most horrendous circumstances, as second class citizens. In fact, in this case, even illegal aliens get preferential treatment. Please take a moment and remember how you felt on September 11th, about the enormous loss of life. Reach deep inside and use that feeling to do the RIGHT and HONORABLE thing. Provide compensation to domestic partners of those lost on 9/11. Thank you for your time and consideration. Individual Comment Oregon September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-21 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 dojR002564.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. 2002-03-21