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 10:31 PM Why Your Discrimination?!? Hello DOJ, As a tax paying, voting American citizen (who also happens to be gay) I find your decision NOT to compensate the gay/lesbian families who lost loved ones on September 11 the same as everyone else appalling, disgusting and deeply troubling. It seems the compassion and patriotism 8/11 created didn't last too long in your hearts, and now that push has come to shove you'll ignore American law to compensate illegal aliens and the unborn children of those who were killed but disregard the very real loss and suffering experienced by same-sex couples. Shame, shame, shame on you all! What bald faced hypocrites you all are! If this is not poisonous and wretched homophobia, what is? How many more years and perhaps (but hopefully not) decades need to pass on before the love of same sex couples is given equal status as the love of opposite sex couples. Trust me, if it were my own partner who was killed in New York or Washington on 8/11, I would be just as devastated as anyone else. And it seems, as you are passing out the benefits now, I would be the poorer for it as well. I urge you to do the right thing and compensate any gay or lesbian family who lost anyone in the terrible destruction of 8/11 the same as anyone else, apparently even illegal aliens and those not yet born, despite there being NO laws on any books for these people. I hope to learn you do the right thing, and soon, Individual Comment Needham, MA 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 dojR001268.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