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, December 24, 2001 11:23 PM gay and lesbian families Dear Mr. Kenneth Feinberg, I am writing to urge you to see to the equitable distribution of the victim's compensation fund. This inludes the families of gay and lesbian victims and those children and families of low-wage earners. These margainilized groups must surely need our generosity most of all, and I would ask you to do all you can to make it possible. The specific challenges of being a gay or lesbian family in a world where marriage is not an option often include the constant act of trying to prove that the relationship is valid. To have to justify your very existence in the face of such trauma seems too much to expect of such vulnerable souls. It is encouraging that the Red Cross and the State of New York have already pledged not to discriminate against these families. The Department of Justice should do the same. The issue of wage-based compensation seems much simpler. This fund should at best offer equal compensation based on the equal life of a human being. The only possible alternative is that those people least equipped to weather the loss of a wage earner would be compensated in reverse proportion to the wage earned. I can think of no version in which the victims in the upper income brackets would get a larger share of the fund than those low-income workers who also lost their lives. Please look at the larger picture here and not try and compensate on a dollar for dollar basis -- need must play a part. Thank you for letting me share my thoughts with you. I look forward to hearing your decisions. Sincerely, Individual Comment Seattle, WA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-24 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 dojN000885.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. 2001-12-24