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 12, 2002 1:50 PM Sad I find it extremely disappointing that this country was founded by people who fled religious persecution. The idea behind the United States was individual freedom and separation of Church and state to ensure that citizens would be able to choose. Now, the United States is openly discriminating against gay Americans. Specifically in the distribution of the Sept. 11 victims funds. Religious bigots and ignorant people who think that they have the divine right to dictate how all people should live their lives have supported and enacted laws dictating how they believe all people should conduct their lives. They have enacted their own standers to dictate who we all should love and what our behavior in the bedroom should be. I also find it extremely dangerous that our revered Attorney General, (and well known religious bigot) has very publicly chosen to dismiss certain laws in reference to distribution of the 911 Funds, but yet stands firm on the fact that gay Americans will be excluded under the guise that he is respecting states laws (and ignoring federal laws). This sounds like a very convenient way for him to justify his bigotry. This sounds very reminiscent of slavery and the Catholic Church stated unequivocally that black people do not have souls and therefore slavery is not a sin. I can only hope that perhaps some day we will look back on this time period and the president of the United States will be making an apology, much like the one Bill Clinton made, but it will be to gay Americans for the blatantly abusive and discriminatory actions of the government at time when all Americans should be united. John Ashcroft and his supporters should be ashamed and should be held accountable for their actions. This is truly a sad, embarrassing, and regrettable day for the United States of America. Individual Comment Arlington, VA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-12 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 dojR000463.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. 2002-03-12