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. Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:46 PM equal compensation for all Americans who are victims Dear Sir or Madam, I want to express my concern that even after the lessons of September 11, we are still treating some Americans with less dignity and respect than others based on orientation. There were several heroes on September 11, some who happened to be gay. Among them were &nbsp , &nbsp , and &nbsp . They put up a fight to prevent loss of life to more Americans by thwarting terrorists plans to fly a plane into more buildings (one believed to be the White House). How do we Americans repay that? We tell them they are less of a citizen, less than an illegal, less than a fetus and not worth acknowledging. If we can inject our personal religious theology into government policy to deprive others, we are no better than the Taliban. Our policy of refusing to allow committed adults to have a legally recognized union, then depriving them any benefits because they are not in a legally recognized union is a disgusting and cruel policy. How do we justify being morality police world-wide when we continue to discriminate in our homeland? Please reconsider the policy to exclude benefits for partners of homosexual Americans. Sincerely, Individual Comment Pasadena CA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-19 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 dojR002185.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. 2002-03-19