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. Wednesday, November 28, 2001 1:44 AM Fairness is a human concept, not just religious The terrorist attack on September 11th devastated many families and now I hear that many people want to limit compensation to only families that meet the definition of certain religious groups. You only have to know that the terrorists acted out of blind obedience to a religious belief regardless of any rational decision to see how wrong such behavior is. Both the Christian and Islamic fundamentalists act based on how they interpret their Holy texts without giving any thought to our rational abilities. It has been over twenty-five years since the medical community declared homosexuality normal and we are still living under a religious rule because "that is how it has always been". It has been less than 100 years since woman were given the vote and less than 150 years ago people were considered property. These things were also "how it has always been" and religion was invoked to support them. Let it not take a hundred years before we recognize the every human being has needs and a fundamental one is that of being part of a family. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-28 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 dojA000056.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. 2001-11-28