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. Friday, March 29, 2002 12:13 PM September 11th Victim Compensation Fund I cannot BELIEVE the discrimination encoded in the definition of 'victim' and those allowed compensation through them! Law-abiding citizens being denied compensation - let alone recognition of their grief - because they are gay or lesbian, while ILLEGAL ALIENS, for heavens sake, are eligible?! With all the government fuss about illegal aliens, they are still counted as more 'deserving' than a legal U.S. citizen?! This is the worst sort of conservative American hypocrisy! I am ashamed of and embarrassed for American leadership; out of an event so life-changing, a tragedy that nevertheless brought Americans closer and changed so many lives and policies, an event that brought appreciation and honor to our Fire, Police, rescue workers etc., an event that made people re-examine their lives and attitudes - after all this, the decision makers reduce it all to prejudiced categorisation. It tarnishes any good that may have come out of 9/11, and it in effect says "Americans - even unborn ones and illegal ones - have suffered a terrible tragedy which has changed us forever, and brought us together as a nation, and we recognise the suffering of all involved...... oh, except for the American citizens that happen to be gay or lesbian, because we don't count them so we're negating them as sentient beings who suffered through this too." How dare you do this to such a percentage of our nation? I am not, myself, gay - but so what? I am not Asian or African American either - but I don't condone prejudice; I am not disabled, but I do not think they are less viable; I am not elderly, but do not discount them as 'past it'. America talks of freedom and equality and understanding..... then something like this once again tarnishes that projected image. I cannot even express how disgusted I am. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-29 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 dojR002816.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. 2002-03-29