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 20, 2002 Kenneth L. Zwick Director, Office of Management Programs Civil Division, US Dept of Justice Main Building, Rm 3140 950 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC. 20530 Mr. Zwick, Of all the terrible moments of September 11th, the worst for me personally was watching the first WTC center collapse, knowing that my partner of many years, who had just recently left a job at the WTC, was wondering about her many colleagues. Fortunately, they were all able to make it out of the building, and my partner, through a stroke of good fortune, was not there. However, had she been there and had she been among those killed, I would right now be losing my home, and struggling to find a way to support our child on one salary because we are a lesbian couple. Your discrimination hiding behind the shortcomings of state laws goes against the equality the United States Constitution strives to bring all its citizens. Granting compensation to illegal aliens and their families who were victimized in the attacks is right and just. The fact that you are willing to overlook federal laws while helping aliens runs counter to your standing on state law to avoid paying a select group. I hope you will look at your current policy and correct the inequality that exists. Please make sure that ALL affected families and households receive the assistance they need to cope with this terrorist attack, whether the household was counting on the income of a brother or sister, an opposite-sex but unmarried partner, or a same-sex partner. Fair rules can be devised for assisting all families and households who were directly affected by this terrorist attack. Please don't use this as an opportunity to cut out or further marginalize people whose loss and grief is no less real because they are not heterosexual. I know how divisive issues of sexual orientation still are in this country; I am under no illusion that you aren't being besieged by calls from the Christian Right to prop up the "traditional family." But please, do the right thing and treat same-sex partners with the same care, concern, compassion, and fairness as all the other victims of the terrorist attacks. This is no time to further punish those who are already suffering so terribly. Sincerely, Individual Comment Roslindale, MA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-20 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 dojR002925.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. 2002-03-20