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 22, 2002 2:16 PM exclusion gay/lesbian partner in Victim Compensation Fund While I am so glad to hear of all that is being done to assist families of Sept. 11 victims, I am outraged to learn that partners of gay and lesbian victims will not be assisted in the same way as family members of heterosexual victims. A victim is a victim, and grief is grief. Though there may be no legal bond between two partners of the same sex who have chosen to love and support one another and spend the rest of their lives together, that is only because current laws do not allow them to create the same legal bond as a man and a woman. Gay couples support one another in every way heterosexual couples support one another, and one of those ways is financially. In fact, as many gay people have been alienated by family members, their partner and other friends, often fuction as their only family. In short, I feel this causes a great sadness, that, in many ways, still America refuses to be "united" and to agreed that "all men [and woman] are created equal." I ask that you please reconsider exclusion of gay and lesbian partners in the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund. Otherwise, you are deeply dishonoring these victims' lives, love, and place as Americans lost in a terrible tragedy. Thank you, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-22 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 dojR002638.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. 2002-03-22