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. Friday, March 15, 2002 9:05 AM concerns To Whom It May Concern: I wanted to relay my concerns regarding the attached article and decision that has been made with regards to exclusion of benefits for gay/lesbian partners of those who died in the Sept. 11th tragedy. This is a massive atrocity and sickens, as well as saddens me. The article clearly identifies and hails several people as heros form this tragedy, who also were homosexual. However, because of their sexual orientation, their partners are not given the same benefits as others. It is especially concerning to me that the partners of gay/lesbian victims will not receive benefits stemming from the loss of their loved ones, gut that victims benefits will be given to survivors of Sept. 11th who are illegal aliens. Not that I do not agree that they (illegal aliens) should, however it is greatly concerning to me that they are given priority and rights that citizens of our own country are not. The article talks that they cannot go against state law and provide benefits to those that states would not normally distribute benefits to, however in this instance they will to illegal aliens. Is this not an inconsistency in policy and decision making? Please help me understand if I am mistaken. I am finding it hard to stomach the lack of intolerance and fair treatment with regards to this matter , especially when since Sept. 11th we are "preaching" solidarity as Americans and support of one another - where is it shown here? I understand that there are rules, policy and regulations, however, at times of such these things need to be examined and decisions must be made that reflect true support and fairness - what is right. I do hope you take the time to reconsider the decisions that have been made. We need not to be fighting ourselves. http://uspolitics.about.com/library/weekly/aa031102a.htm Sincerely, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-15 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 dojR000818.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. 2002-03-15