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. Sunday, March 17, 2002 12:05 AM The Compensation Fund: Dear Ladies and Gentlemen: The courage, bravery, and sacrifice of so many Americans who died on September eleventh 2001 now presents us with the duty to compensate their loved ones; now suddenly and tragically left living without their loved spouses and partners. I am particularly concerned about the fact that the survivors of gay and lesbian heroes (for example: &nbsp who helped bring down flight 91 in Pennsylvania, F.D.N.Y. &nbsp who died in the line of duty when the first tower fell, and &nbsp who was &nbsp of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon, and many more) will be overlooked and under-compensated because "the law is the law and no exceptions can be made?" None of these heroes were discriminating against any of their fellow Americans when they courageously gave their utmost, and ultimately their lives for our country, on this tragic day! How could we, as their fellow Americans disregard, devalue, and "second class" their sacrifice? This would be flat out: Wrong! Their survivors, partners, spouses, life-partners (whatever one would call "them") deserve the same amount of victim compensation as any other citizen of the USA, a fetus, and even an illegal alien (who will be receiving benefits currently). Please don't add serious insult to the monumental injury that the survivors of gay and lesbian Americans are facing by denying them the same compensation and benefits that others are entitled to! My heart is filled with compassion and gratitude toward all the survivors of those who died on 9-11. Let us endeavor to do what is right! We should help the surviving partners of ALL those whose sacrifice we all are benefiting from at this moment! Were it not for the sacrifices of gay and lesbian people on 9-11, we may be looking at a totally different scenario. Regards, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-17 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 dojR001296.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. 2002-03-17