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. Monday, March 18, 2002 9:24 AM Discrimination in Victims' Benefits Dear Sirs: I am saddened that benefits won't be awarded equally to gay American citizens whose partners died as a result of the September 11 attacks, and outraged by the fact that illegal aliens will receive the same benefits as legal American citizens. Whose brilliant idea was that? It is very clear that the INS is ineffective in keeping these illegals out of the country, but to award these aliens and not punish the companies that hired them while knowing full well they were here illegally in this country is an outrage. Maybe we should go backward in time and be treated like African Americans used to be treated. We could have gay only restrooms, gay only drinking fountains and have to sit in the back of the bus, giving up our seats when heterosexuals need to sit down. How about banning gays from attending heterosexual-only schools, forbidding us to look a heterosexual in the eye when we walk the streets or face jail time? By not awarding same sex partners the identical benefits as married couples, you are putting us in the back of the bus as second and third class citizens. Is this the message you want to send to us, our country and the rest of the world? I am totally embarrassed by your bias and bigotry and totally ashamed of my government because of this policy. And you should be ashamed too. You call yourself the Department of Justice? It's more like the Department of Just Us! Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-18 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 dojR001696.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. 2002-03-18