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 1:37 PM Compensation for gay & lesbian survivors Hello, My name is &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp and I am a social worker and psychotherapist in Nebraska. I am very upset that the 9/11 victims who happened to be gay or lesbian are not recognized as fully as the heterosexual victims. I write this because the heterosexual survivors will be compensated for losing their heterosexual loved one's but the partner of a gay or lesbian 9/11 victim do not receive that same right to compensation. Please reconsider this because illegal aliens and unborn babies have more rights to this compensation than a gay or lesbian partner of a victim. The death of any American heroe should not be discriminated against basedon race, creed, religious beliefs, or sexual orientation. The homosexual victim's life is just as equal to the heterosexual victim. ALL the victims spouses, significant others, and families mourn the death of their own heroe; thus, please do not ignore the gay or lesbian individual in grief based on who he or she loved. I do believe this policy is UnAmerican and an outrage that needs to be corrected ASAP. Would you deny compensation to those survivors of black, Jewish, or any other minority victim based on their differences? America would have just 100 years ago, have we not learned our lesson on hatred? Please honor all of the 9/11 victims and their survivors by choosing the honorable and American action of compensating the victims' loved ones, ALL of those they loved. 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 dojR000921.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