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. Monday, March 18, 2002 1:31 AM 9/11 Fund Discriminates against U.S. Citizens (Gays and Lesbians) The lack of recognition for compensation of US gay and lesbian citizens' partners (And I presume any children that are part of the family, but may only be legally listed as related to the surviving partner) by the 9/11 Fund is open discrimination. There is no excuse acceptable for this bigoted, hateful action. The government cannot use the law to give illegal citizens, who are not US citizens, compensation and at the same time use the law to deny and discriminate against gay and lesbian partners who have lost their "life" partners. The government denies the right of gays and lesbians to be recognized in society as a "couple" with all rights, protections and privileges that married couples enjoy. Hence you have classified all gays and lesbians (US Citizens) as second class citizens not entitled to protections and rights. This is total discrimination in a country that touts equal civil rights, protection and freedom for all. Why would the government be sued for compensating the partners of gay and lesbian US citizens, but not for compensating illegal aliens families? This is blatant discriminatory use of the law. One group is clearly US citizens and the other is not. This discrimination by the Federal Government is inexcusable. It's disgusting that the Federal Government has found a way to openly discriminate against gays and lesbians. I thought I was donating money to an organization that would help all US citizens who lost loved ones, including gays/lesbians, and their children. I do not contribute to any group that discriminates against any group, and I want my donation returned to me. I will encourage all people who donated money to this fund to demand it back. There is no acceptable excuse not to compensate partners of gays and lesbians who lost their life on 9/11, along with many other US Citizens. Individual Comment Lytle Creek, CA 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 dojR001594.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