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 11, 2002 6:50 PM A generous and righteous public policy.... If we as a society are agreeing that the survivors of those who lost their lives are due acknowledgement of the loss, in the form of generous financial support, then we take on the possibly onerous task of finding equitable means of reaching out to all of those immediately affected by this unique cricumstance. The uniqueness of the event has obviously forced us to look at the challenge in heretofore inconceivable ways... we are prepared to offer significant benefits to the survivors of individuals who've broken some of our most publicly-debated laws -- illegal immigrants, including offering benefits to those who are themselves in this country illegally. It is a generous and righteous public policy stance. How then can we, in good faith, justify denying benefits to the surviving gay life partners of those who lost their lives, simply because we do not currently have a legal construct for defining those relationships? Neither victim nor survivor has violated any American law. They are heroes like all of those who lost so much (In fact many gay men are among the most vaunted heroes of the day, including , , and ). Surely we can find a way to include their survivors in our generous act of compassion, without doing damage to exsting state or federal law. The extenuating circumstances of this event demand no less. I urge you to seek out a way to include the rightful partners of these American heroes. Individual Comment Venice, Ca September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-11 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 dojR000289.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. 2002-03-11