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, December 03, 2001 12:49 AM Topic 235: Claimant eligibility To the officials of the Dept. of Justice I am writing to publicly comment on the issue of Topic 235: Claimant Eligibility for the September 11th Victim's Compensation Fund ("the Fund"). Specifically, I am asking that long-term partners (also called domestic partners or life partners) of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered persons who were victims of the September 11th attacks be made eligible for compensation. Many Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered ("GLBT") people died in those attacks. Some were flight crew, others were passengers, office workers, and government personnel. They died cruel deaths, and in many cases left behind long-term partners as survivors. I have known GLBT people who have been in relationships for 10, 15, 30 years. I have no doubt that some of the victims were in such relationships. Along with the agony, grief, and emotional loss these partners face, they also face the loss of their homes, and have suffered emotional and financial cost of funeral expenses, and have suffered other losses. President Bush and Attorney General Ashcroft have both made statements saying the attacks were attacks on all Americans, and that we should celebrate and unite behind the fact that, despite our differences, we are all Americans. I request those establishing the rules for Claimant Eligibility include surviving long-term partners as claimants. All of the victims killed by the terrorists were regarded as "Americans". No distinction was made as to the race, color, creed, sexual orientation, or gender of those the terrorists killed. We should do no less when establishing criteria for who is eligible to file a claim. I urge you not to stamp the surviving long-term partners of GLBT victims as somehow being "second-class citiznes" less worthy than other classes. Individual Comment Denver, CO September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-03 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 dojA000265.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. 2001-12-03