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 12:47 PM Discrimination against gays I am appalled that the government is going to deny compensation to the partners of gays and lesbians killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks. This is unconscionable. In the case of illegal aliens, the thought seems to be "we don't like it, but this is not the time to be concerned about it". Why does the same not apply to gays and lesbians? Do you think that they do not have families that depend on them, too? I do not think it is even a little bit fair to grant compensation to one of these groups and not the other. In fact, I'd say the opposite should be true. After all, these people are not ILLEGALLY gay! Do gay people not pay taxes? Of course they do. Illegal aliens? In some cases, no, they don't. Did gay people contribute to funds such as the Red Cross, etc. in the wake of 9/11? I'm sure they did. So, why are they not "good enough" to receive compensation when illegal aliens are? Please please please reconsider the government's stance in this issue. It's not fair, and in fact, it's downright mean. Sincerely, 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 dojR001909.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