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. Kenneth L. Zwick, Director Office of Management Programs Civil Division U.S. Department of Justice Main Building, Room 3140 950 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C. 20530 Dear Mr. Zwick, March 18, 2002 As a gay Veteran, I am appalled at the recent announcement by the Head of the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund to exclude gay and lesbian partners from receiving assistance if their state does not recognize the relationship. In addition, illegal aliens are supported by the fund and will not be deported. Did I just wake up in the Twilight Zone? We can ignore one law for illegal, non- taxpaying aliens and follow the letter of the law when it comes to legal, tax paying gay and lesbian citizens? Does equal protection under the law mean anything in this country? Gay people died trying to save others and in the end our whole community is spat on by our own Government. Our government is saying "Thanks Gay people for saving our lives...but we have to follow your state laws and we will not protect your partners if your state doesn't recognize you as an equal citizen. But we will protect aliens and not deport them." I am asking you to reconsider this decision. There are gay families that are in desperate need of assistance and they deserve to be included and not excluded. This should be a time of inclusion. The pain of losing a partner is bad enough, but then to be told you will not receive any assistance but illegal aliens will is just adding salt to the wound. How much more pain will we force these folks to go through? Is this really the right message to send Americans? I don't think so and deep in your heart I'm sure you don't think so either. Now is the time to take a stand for those you can't. Sincerely. Disabled Air Force Veteran 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 dojR002716.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