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. March 18, 2002 Kenneth L. Zwick, Director Office of Management Programs Civil Division U.S. Department of Justice Main Building, Room 3140 950 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C. 20530 Dear Mr. Zwick: I am writing to you because , following most state guidelines, the lovers and partners of those gay men and women who died as a result of the terrorist attacks in September will most likely not be able to collect government compensation for their shattered lives. How dare you. How dare you take the easy route and allow states to advocate funds for the victims families. To deny benefits to the surviving partners of U.S. CITIZENS because they are gay? While you will grant the same benefits to illegal aliens? Who has given you the right to play God and to decide that our lives are LESS WORTHY than your own? That the grief of those who lost partners instead of husbands or wives feel less and are less worthy of being comforted? Just who in the world DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? This is a terrible injustice being done to people who are who are still in bound with grief. It is MORALLY WRONG to treat them as if their relationships, and the lives of the people they loved and lost, are unimportant. It is in YOUR power to amend this. If you do not, your bigotry rings out loud and clear, as loud as the sound of the liberty bell that clamors for freedom and justice for all-or, for gay men and women, freedom and justice for everyone but us. Sincerely, Individual Comment Woodside, NY 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 dojR002714.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