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, November 28, 2001 5:55 PM Offer benefits to non-traditional families Attention Kenneth L. Zwick, Director, Office of Management Programs Unless the government expands its definition of "family," survivors of victims of the September 11 attack will suffer even more than they have already. The partners and de facto children & dependents of gays and lesbians have suffered an equal economic and emotional loss to heterosexual victims' wives, husbands, children, parents and siblings. I'm very grateful that my partner of five years was not hurt or killed in this tragedy. Because we are gay and, therefore, have virtually no guaranteed rights as couples, we all stand to lose not only our partners when they die, but also our claims to property and other assets. To deny aid to the families of homosexual victims of the attack is to deny their significant contributions to their communities as families. Please dispense this aid equally; I expect no less as a taxpayer and an American. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-28 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 dojA000133.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. 2001-11-28