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. Saturday, March 16, 2002 2:15 PM att: Kenneth L. Zwick, regarding 9/11 Hello, im writing you in responce to the decision of discrimination of gays in regards to benefits of 9/11. I really dont nor most of american can understand why aliens, and fetuses are allowed benefits equally to other lost americans , but if a person is gay, their families and partners are not allowed the same respect of benefits. If we are taught to not refer to someone as blacks, jews, asian, why cannot gays be considered to be an equal as the previous mentioned. Im from a very religious background, and i believe when god looks down on us he does not judge us by our sex, colour, or financial status, but he sees us as his children all the same , all equal except seperated by our decisions and actions but otherwise all the same in his eyes. Why must the goverment still today feel as if they are in need of a witch hunt, that there should always have a represenative to fight, one that threatens the image of americans, gays are a victim equal here as others, the bad guy here is terrorism. Some day this will be only a memory, and we will have moved beyond this bigotted point of view, and YOU will represent the foolish , prejudice, politician of this event, and not remembered in a positive light, for you i quess see yourself as protecting the image of america, how can this be for you have a double standard, and one that will soon be viewed as outdated. Change cannot come quick enough in this day and age with the views of your sort, may god grant us a quick change of goverment, one updated to the here and now of where we are in the world, and not from the narrow point of views of a few. I hope that someday you yourself will be presented with the issue of having to deal with someone close to you being gay, and maybe at this time you will see your mistakes.... Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-16 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 dojR000962.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. 2002-03-16