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, December 05, 2001 12:35 PM comments about compensation of gays/lesbians Kenneth L. Zwick, Director Office of Management Programs, Civil Division U.S. Department of Justice Mr. Zwick I am deeply disturbed that some individuals wish to exclude the families, partners and children of gay and lesbian victims from compensation for the terrorist attacks. Where is the logic in that? It is beyond cruel to retraumatize others by denying them acknowledgment and economic survival because we are insultingly presumptuous enough to "decide" for them whether their personal relationships are "valid". In the past, we once turned our fear and pain into disgusted, righteous exclusion of traumatized Viet vet amputees and bereaved families; we still carry guilt for that, but have we learned nothing? Are we willing to do that again? Denying someone else's pain does not make anyone's pain go away. Let's not compound one tragedy with another. This is about helping people to heal, not finding new ways to express hate. Please do not deny the loved ones of gay and lesbian victims what little (but necessary) comfort such compensation will bring. Let's do the right thing here. Thanks for hearing my comments. Individual Comment Chicago Illinois September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-05 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 dojA000930.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. 2001-12-05