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. Saturday, March 16, 2002 4:02 PM The value of an American Life To whom it may concern: I recently received information relating to gay-Americans and the the September 11th fund. Apparently, the United States government has now placed a value on a human life. Not that there should be any varying degrees of value on human life, but it seems that a fetus, as well as, an illegal alien are now both deemed more valuable and inherently worthy of September 11th relief than are homosexual Americans. It seems to me that this is blatantly unAmerican and outright discriminatory. It is shameful, non-cohesive and perpetuates discrimination, segregation and hate. How is this country supposed to pull together when the indirect message they are receiving from actions like these are: "there are some people who are more "American" and worthy of relief than others." I am deeply discusted with this newfound information and plan on speaking with the rest of the Feminist (and other liberal) groups on my college campus in order to spread awareness of what the government is now doing. People need to be educated on the widespread corruption and discrimination that the government perpetuates. I have seen a little coverage of this issue on the news, I believe it was the O'Reilly factor (not sure though), and it seems the only government reaction and justification for this action was, "if the states do not recognize same-sex partners than we have to follow state statute." ..........It occurs to me that this is simply a cop-out to do the wrong thing. Issues like September 11th and this recent Florida Gay-Adoption case (and Rosie O'Donnell) prove to the rest of America that it is time to take Federal Action on the issue of HUMAN rights. Discrimination is past its time, it is time to do something about it. If the states do not recognize this, the Federal government needs to start stepping in and making suggestions-----discrimination should not be tolerated in America. And making excuses based on state statutes is evading the issue altogether and sending the wrong message to this country. Thank you for your time. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-16 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 dojR001072.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. 2002-03-16