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 3:00 PM 9/11 Fund To whom it may concern:   I am appalled, but not surprised that our Government fails to recognize the sacrifices, losses and contributions of Gay Americans by not offering to gay partners equal rights to benefits of the 9/11 fund.   I understand that currently each state is allowed to decide how much or how little they will discriminate against gay people and that despite the contributions by millions of upstanding United States gay tax paying citizens throughout  this country's history to the military, education, the arts, medicine and science, etc., the Federal Government will not take away a state's right to discriminate against gays. I must point out that gay discrimination is a result of moral issues, which is based in religion. Do we not live in a nation that separates church and state? What happened to that notion? One person's freedoms may not encroach on those of another's, how about that?   The freedom of a state to decide to what extent they will discriminate against gays is an encroachment on the freedoms and rights of the gay citizens of that state. This is spot-lighted by September 11, 2001, possible the most tragic day in this nation's history. All Americans were touched by this tragedy. Many Americans suffered tremendous and incomprehensible loss as a result of this tragedy. And those that did, no matter what race, religion or sexual orientation, suffered equally. There is only one right decision in this matter. Offering anything less than equal benefits to gay partners who suffered equal loss in the September 11th tragedy is un-American. Individual Comment 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 dojR001975.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