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. Wednesday, March 13, 2002 5:43 AM Important - 9/11 Fund not fair in distribution of funds to Gays! Dear President George W. Bush, As a contributor to the 911 Fund and a voter for yourself, I am deeply upset about the treatment that the partners of gay victims are scheduled to receive. My partner and I have been in a committed relationship for nine years and have taken legal steps to ensure that each of us is taken care of in the event one of us should die. All because the Government continues to recognize the religious institution of marriage. We must end the state sponsorship by endorsement of religious acts. I share John's comments below: On Sunday morning's "Meet the Press," Kenneth Feinberg, the head of the September 11 Victim's Compensation Fund (a program of the US Dept. of Justice), is planning on limiting what kind of compensation goes to gay and lesbian victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks. And the way the rules read, gays and lesbians will probably get nothing. Forget that , a gay man, was one of the heroes who brought United Flight 93 down in a field in Pennsylvania instead of on top of the US Congress, where it was supposedly headed. And forget that NY Fire Department was gay, as was the of the plane that flew into the Pentagon. No, according to John Ashcroft's Justice Department, apparently some heroes are more equal than others. This story is a must read. And pass it along to your friends. (Also, you'll really want to check out the story online, as there are a lot of hyperlinks in it to other good content about this issue, like John McCain's eulogy of , etc.) I just cannot express the depth of my anger. It's as though Ashcroft and the Fund are suggesting that gay Americans did not suffer as much as everybody else on September 11. I can tell you that for me at least, watching the Pentagon burn outside my living room window is an image I won't soon forget - regardless of what John Ashcroft and the 9/11 fund think of me and my patriotism. Incredibly angrily yours, Individual Comment 9/11 Fund to Discriminate Against Gays About.com - US Politics March 11, 2002 September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-13 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 dojR000560.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. 2002-03-13