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. Monday, March 18, 2002 1:52 AM Partners of Gays Killed in the 911 Tragedies Attention: Ken Zwick Civil Division, USDOJ Dear Ken: I have read that gay and lebian partners of gay victims of the 911 tragedies will not automatically receive the same compensation as heterosexual spouses of victims from the Victims Compensation Fund created by Congress. I am very distrubed by this. After 911 there was great talk about there being no "hyphenated" Americans, e.g., Italian-Americans, Afro-Americans, etc. We were all only Americans. This was a rallying cry for uniting the country. In six months time, we have forgotten this rallying cry and are now discriminating against the surviving families of Gay-Americans who died in either the World Trade Center, Pentagon, or Pennsylvania tragedies by denying or threatening to deny them the same compensation as heterosexual suviving family members. Many of these gay victims are acknowledged heroes such as &nbsp , &nbsp , and &nbsp . Enough is enough. The U.S. Government needs to do the right thing and compensate the survivors of all vicitims in a non-discrimantory manner. This is the American Way. Sincerely yours, Individual Comment 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 dojR001596.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