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 11, 2002 12:37 PM 9/11 Victims Fund To Whom It May Concern: I read recently that the distribution of victim's funds for the 9/11 attacks will be made available "in accordance" with a given state's laws. Becuase the vast majority of states do not legally recognize gay and lesbian relationship this means that most of the gays and lesbians who had partners die that die will not be eligible for compensation. How can Kenneth Feinberg in good and fair conscious refuse any person or group who had partners die in this trategy? Mr. Feinberg suggests that he or the federal government might get sued if he were to grant moneys to victims in states where gay and lesbain parternerships are not legally recognized. So what? According to previous words of Mr. Feinberg, this fund was supposedly set up in the name of courage for people who "did what was right" that day to protect others. Where is Mr. Feinberg's courage to do what's right? Does he really beleive that some groups of people are less deserving of compensation that others? I say let those sue who feel inclined to do so. And I say that if the leader of the victim's fund is "scared" of some legal papers being shuffled around, he should consider the fear that gay and lesbian people who lost loved ones that day are going to have to face. Individual Comment Royal Oak, MI September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-11 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 dojR000050.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. 2002-03-11