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. Tuesday, March 19, 2002 6:30 PM compensation of victims' families It has just to come to my attention that the United States has made a determination that the "Fund" will not be assisting the families/partners of gay or lesbian victims of the attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Please respond and PLEASE do your best to help me understand WHY and HOW you made the determination that someone who is homosexual leaves no dependent loved-ones in the wake of this tragedy. Please help me to understand WHY and HOW you decided that these partners of the victims could do without monetary assistance. Have we reached the point in this country, given all that we have been through in our climb up the civil rights ladder, that we have to put into writing that gay and lesbian people are, in fact, AMERICANS? And that these AMERICANS died in the same way that the other victims did, quite possibly assisting someone's straight friend or loved one. HOW can you or anyone choose? HOW can you decide WHO is a legitimate victim/American/recipient of assistance? My God, what does it take for you guys to quit writing rules about WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE... and look around and see that we are all CHILDREN OF GOD? You have the money. Just shut your mouths long enough to do some good. Don't look at their sex, color, religion, sexuality or national origin--just do the right thing. We know you can do it right if you just close your eyes. Sincerely, Individual Comment Columbia, SC September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-19 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 dojR002242.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. 2002-03-19