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. Monday, March 18, 2002 1:56 AM Victim Compensation Could you please explain to me why some gay Americans are being left out? I really would like to know! First, they are Americans! AMERICANS!! Should they not be allowed the same benefits under this Fund just like an illegal alien? However, illegal aliens, if lost loved ones, deserve the compensation just like everyone else. These are the same people the government would boot out of the country, under any other circumstance. However, I would think that no matter who you are provided that you lost someone in the horrendous attack, would get compensation. I sincerely doubt anyone is going to stop and say, "Let's sue because some gay person got benefits and our state doesn't allow that!" Do you know what kind of ill will and basic dislike that person would receive? Not just from gay americans (There's that word again - AMERICANS!!) also from other people who are heterosexual. For someone, to actually attach a lawsuit again someone who suffered through the 9/11 with their loved ones dying, would be horrendous! That person would probably be received as a terrorist in his own country for something like that. All those people died for no reason whatsoever, and they will always be remembered. However, why should some of them be considered lesser of a memorial than others? Surely it would not be of their sexual orientation? Come on one would think this country, The Land of the Brave and the Free, is not going to let someone go unnoticed! I don't know, maybe I'm just one of those people that think everyone should be equal. If you stop and think about it, people that say gay people want gay rights....What they are simply asking for is basic human rights! Is that hard to believe? Right thats are given to every person that live in this country, however some people are out there that wish to deny people that and call it an agenda. We like to call ourselves The United States, but how United are we? Maybe that should be a question posed to every American (Funny, how that word keeps popping up - AMERICANS!!) Maybe in a perfect world things will run smoothly, however, until then we should be making the best out of it, not trying to divide the country even further. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-18 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 dojR001597.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. 2002-03-18