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. Friday, March 29, 2002 11:21 AM Fairness in Compensation Attachment 1: Gentlemen, Kenneth Feinberg's comment on Meet the Press on March 10th that "[Gays and lesbians are] left out of my program to the extent that their own state doesn't include them...I can't get into that local battle. I've got to rely on state law" is disingenuous, hiding a de facto governmental policy of discrimination under the convenient guise of respect for state law, a highly selective respect indeed as John Ashcroft continues to demonstrate. Does Mr Feinberg expect any rational person to believe that individual states would object to Federal compensation payments to gay survivors of victims of the World Trade Center tragedy? Does he actually hold the intelligence of the average American in such contempt? More importantly, can we call ourselves a great people and a great nation when our government officials find specious excuses to shirk the responsibilities of fundamental decency and fairness? The rights of citizenship and the obligations of humanity require you to offer compensation equally, to all survivors of the victims of September 11th. I urge you to follow your heart in this matter and do the right thing. Yours, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-29 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 dojR002815.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. 2002-03-29