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, November 28, 2001 10:12 PM 9/11/01 Mr. Zwick, I am writing to you out of concern for the families of those people killed in the WTC/Pentagon attacks who happened to be members of the gay/lesbian community. The relationships these people had with their departed loved ones were no less valid than the one I have with my husband of seventeen years. I'd guess a good number of them were of longer duration. And they are just as emotionally and financially devastated as I would be were I to loose my spouse. And yet, in spite of all of this, they are facing no relief, no help, because our wonderful country cannot see fit to wrap the arms of civil union around the LesBiGay community. For some reason lost to me, those in power are unable to separate the 'legal' contract of marriage from the religious rite of matrimony. There is no reason whatsover to prohibit gays and lesbians from engaging in civil marriages - to protect themselves, adopted children, property and other interests. Nothing save the intolerant, judgemental, paternalism of the religious right. The 'rite' needs to be separated from the 'right'. I implore you, in the spirit of dignity and fairness, please afford the survivors of those killed on that terrible day the same rights you would afford to me had my husband died that day. Many of these couples were joined together in religious ceremonies in their churches - their communities see them as married. Their hearts were married. They may have lost a person the feel as a parent or child to. They are no less survivors of that gay person than I would be my husband. They deserve to be treated as such when applying for assistance. Individual Comment Virginia Beach, VA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-28 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 dojA000162.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. 2001-11-28