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 9:18 PM September 11th Fund I recently heard of the comments made by Kenneth Feinberg on Meet the Press (Sunday, March 10th). As a voting, tax-paying, gay American, I am appalled (but sadly, not surprised) that gay and lesbian Americans who lost their partners will not necessarily receive the same benefits as others who lost loved ones in the tragedy of September 11th. I find it a huge slap in the face that illegal aliens will be allowed to receive these benefits, but people born in this country, legal, natural-born (tax-paying) citizens will not. It is also extremely hypocritical for anyone to look past the laws concerning illegal aliens, but yet hold gay and lesbian Americans to "individual state laws" that govern what constitutes a relationship or partnership. Since September 11th, I have been proud to be an American, however, these are the types of decisions that make me deeply ashamed of the hypocrisy and hatred that still exists in this country. I strongly disagree with this decision and urge those with the power to change this decision to do so. Sincerely, 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 dojR002268.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