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 1:20 AM Disgusting Outrage in appropriation of funds I am disgusted that not ALL 9/11 victims are being included equally in the distribution of the funds. I think it's proper that illegal immigrants are included without threat of deportation and that companies that hired them won't be in trouble either. It's correct that the law be overlooked in this case. But somehow, the fund administrators don't seem to be willing to do the same for partners of gay and lesbian people killed in 9/11. The justification for this has been stated as fear of law suits from states that don't legally recognize same-sex couples, so stepping outside the bounds of law was not an option to take. Why is this any different from immigration laws? Hasn't 9/11 tought us anything about coming together as a nation of ALL people to protect eachother and our freedom? This is a disgusting and sinful outrage and amounts to nothing but prejudice and discrimination. As an American Citizen, I officially protest this exclusion of Americans who are gay and lesbian, and make my protest a matter of public record. Individual Comment 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 dojR002292.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