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 6:41 PM September 11 fund Dear Sir: I felt I must write to protest the discrimination against a portion of our great society. We have made huge strides in this country to put all such fuzzy thinking behind us. Now, we are once again facing discrimination in the allocation of funds to the families of gays and lesbians. When I speak of families, I am not only thinking of Mothers and Fathers, but of significant others, partners in life. I wish I could say spouse, but a segment of our society seems to have outlawed that possibility. It seems a shame that we, on one hand, say that "they" cannot marry and yet, on the other hand, say that "they" cannot receive benefits unless they are married. In the plans for the distribution of funds from the 9/11 tragedy, we are extending benefits to illegal aliens and fetuses (always supposing that they are not gay). There were many heroes that day, some gay, some straight. Will we weep less for the loss of some and not others? My father was one of the soldiers who liberated Dachau after World War II and the one true lesson he learned there was that we must NEVER, EVER let that happen again. The way to prevent this is by making sure that ALL Americans are treated equally. Let the future begin here. Thank you, 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 dojR002244.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