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. Date: 3/14/02 Kenneth L. Zwick Director, Office of Management Programs Civil Division, US Dept of Justice Main Building Room 3140 950 Pensylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20530 Mr. Zwick, I am writing to tell you how shocked to hear that you will not be compensating the gay and lesbian victims of 9/11. It is my understanding that no payments are being made to gay and lesbian partners and family members if there is no state law to sanction a payment. I made contributions at work to 9/11 funds and it was not just some of the victims. Your discrimination hiding behind the shortcomings of state laws goes against the equality United States Constitution strives to bring all its citizens. Granting compensation to illegal aliens and their families who were victimized in the attacks is right and just. The fact that you are willing to overlook federal laws while helping aliens runs counter to your standing on state law to avoid paying a select group. When my company, ask for contributions to its 9/11 fund I contributed out of a sense of compassion and patriotism. matched the employee contributions which were over $100,000. Our parent company pledged $3,000,000 as well. Although I don't speak for my company I will take up this issue with those who may lend a voice to the cause of equality for all the victims of 9/11. I will encourage and to specify that no exclusion be made to any individual or group that was a victim of the act of terrorism. I hope you will look at your current policy and correct the inequality that exists. Individual Comment Arlington, VA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-14 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 dojR002860.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. 2002-03-14