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. Sunday, March 17, 2002 4:29 PM funds for partners of g/l victims of sept. 11th Dear Kenneth L. Zwick, Director, I am writing to you today because it is my understanding that gay and lesbian family members of the victims killed on Sept. 11th will not be treated with the same dignity, fairness and respect. The funds allocated for families of the victims should include partners of Gay and Lesbian people who were either killed or heroically gave their lives on September 11, 2001. If nothing else, it was my hope that we, as a nation, could take away from this horrific tragedy, and assault on our country, that we are ALL Americans. Hatred brought to us this kind of attack, it's painfully ironic that we are allowing prejudice and hatred to effect, in any way, our national duty to all of the families effect by this tragedy. An easy solution to this mess, would be to allow for all committed adult couples to be legally recognized for the families that they are. Since we aren't there yet, nationally, the only just thing to do would be to recognize the reality that gay and lesbian families exist and should be compensated equally to that of heterosexual families. Please listen to all of the rational voices across America and remember ALL of the people who died and the grieving families they have left behind. Love, and commitment makes a family, Sir, not some made up political definition. It is my hope, that a just decision will be made, and that American's can truly hold their collective heads high, knowing that we have not turned our backs on our sisters and brothers. In Peace and Unity, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-17 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 dojR001479.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. 2002-03-17