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. Thursday, March 21, 2002 2:53 PM Final Ruling Response I find it incredible that we are going to allow state government dictate who will and who will not be compensated for their losses. The victims of the 9/11 attack were victims of the world, and should not be made additional, individual victims of their state legislature. Regardless of the distributing body for the funds, these monies are national monies; they should not be placed under the restrictions of anything other than Federal mandates. Listen to the people. Are there caveats on the monies they gave to the victims. Did I, or anyone else who sent money say "Hey, you can have my money so long as you don't give it to gays, lesbians, people of Arabic decent, people who have some Islamic contingent in their background, etc., etc.?" No. Regardless of the fact that same-sex marriages or partnerships are not recognized by all states, if there is documented proof that people were living in common it isn't our place at this moment to judge them. They have suffered a loss that is no less than a heterosexual's loss. Are you really going to compound the devastation of their experience by withholding what little compensation is available to them? For God's sake, don't judge. None of us are so free that we can say what one man does is right versus that which another man does is wrong. Cowboy up, Federal Administration, and help out all the people, not just the people of whom you condone their actions. I don't like what you are doing, but I wouldn't withhold aid based on this judgment. How about succumbing to real Christian ethics and help people instead of judging them. Find the word of God, if this is the issue, instead of the expectations and persecution of man. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-21 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 dojR002537.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. 2002-03-21