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. Tuesday, March 19, 2002 6:13 PM Eligiblity Laws To whom it may concerned: I am outraged at how an organization who is supposed to be helping the ones most gravely affected by the tragedies of Sept. 11th can make such allowances as to ignore federal and state laws in order to help the illegal aliens, to make funds available to fetuses, who in all actuallity can not be 100% tested as being child to one of the departed, but not to gays and lesbians who in some cases were one of the very men who saved the DC target. Who in some cases lost their lives giving the last rites to those already gone in the towers. Who in some cases were flying the planes that crashed. To make allowances for so many things that are not accepted and not legal and not recognized by the whole of society but then to turn your heads to one group of people who are not accepted and not legal (ie:marriages) and not recognized by the whole of society. Where is the definition that the other groups where special allowances were made over society and over the laws of our country and states are better than the group of gays and lesbians whose same rights are being denied. Sept 11th I had thought had brought our country together despite all the arguements we've had within our nation. Despite our differences and color lines, sex lines, orientation lines, political lines, etc. we learned that our nation as a whole was more important than all of our petty bickering amoungst ourselves. Now I am not so sure that we have all learned that. I guess it is left to what I have always known. The gays and lesbians will have to support each other and look to within our "family." I am proud to say that so far there are 4 gays/lesbians out of my family of 7 brothers and sisters and not one of them is any less important or any less needed as part of my family than the ones that are straight. Nor do I consider any gay/lesbians in society any less important or any less needed than the ones who are heterosexual. Sadly I cannot change the minds of those who already so closed and blind to building peace and acceptance amoungst all of society. But I can try to speak my mind and hope that one day my one voice will make the difference. FOR THE MEMORY OF: And so many more... Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-19 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 dojR002237.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. 2002-03-19