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, March 20, 2002 4:53 PM dismay at discrimination against gay Americans Kenneth L. Zwick, Director Office of Management Programs Civil Division U.S. Department of Justice Main Building, Room 3140 950 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20530 Dear Mr. Zwick: I am writing to express my concern and disappointment that gay Americans have been excluded from the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund. Considering that at least two of the heroic victims of the terrorist attacks, and , were gay, this exclusion seems particularly unfair. Discrimination is un-American. In a time when the country should be coming together, it is terrible to stigmatize and ignore a large segment of America. Considering that 49 Members of the House of Representatives, Governor Pataki of New York, former Mayor Giuliani of New York, Attorney General Elliot Spitzer of New York, and many others urged the Justice Department to treat all survivors equally, I cannot comprehend how gay partners could be so egregiously overlooked. People who have lost loved ones should not have their tragedy compounded by being insensitively ignored or treated as less worthy than others in the same situation. In such a time of grief, the government should not be treating gay Americans as second-class citizens. I sincerely hope you will work to rectify this terrible, callous error. Sincerely, Individual Comment Collingswood, NJ September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-20 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 dojR002404.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. 2002-03-20