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 26, 2002 12:11 PM Against Decision to follow state discremination laws Dear Department of Justice: Thank you for all of your hard work and the difficult task of running the 9/11 fund. (I can only assume that it is one of the hardest things your department has had to do.) I would like your department to know that I disagree with the decision to follow state law in determining whether to grant benefits to a partner of a same sex relationship. An article passed on to me on March 11, 2002 stated that many laws were being "over-looked" to compensate as many people that were affected from this tragic situation. I applaud your efforts to look at people and not laws in this VERY special situation. However, I also read that Kenneth Feinberg's decision to follow state law to avoid law suits from states with respect to same sex couples ( and his partner.) Senator John McCain stated that he was thankful that their were still people like in this world and that Senator McCain possibly "owed" these men his life for saving the government buildings. If we are going to "over-look" laws with respect to illegal aliens, I believe that our government and more importantly this fund should take a stand to treat ALL people fairly. Please pass this email up the "chain of command" and let the "right" people know that if we are going to move ahead from this tragedy, we must all remember that we are people working together to build a better world. Sincerely, Individual Comment San Francisco, CA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-26 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 dojR002743.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. 2002-03-26