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, March 20, 2002 1:18 PM 9/11 Fund Nondiscrimination Request We are good enough for airlines to take our money, and then fly us under attack into fields, buildings, towers. But we are not deemed good enough to share in the family Victim and Compensation Fund resulting from 9/11. We are worthy enough to work with firemen and provide last rites, but we are ignored as a community member except in our own community as a deserving hero of that gruesome day. We are co-pilot of one of those planes that was forced by terrorists into a building, killing us and our passengers. And yet we still are ignored. We are heroic enough, and called so by United States Senators and Representatives, when we help thwart terrorist activities on one of the planes, and yet our loved ones and families are ignored when benefits are discussed. We are compassionate enough to raise AIDS and crack babies, and yet not considered able to adopt them when they already are a part of our family. We are human enough to want to live our lives the same as everyone else, wanting to express our love for each other in the right to marry. If we were married, you say, we would receive benefit from the Fund. But then you tell us we can't marry! Indeed, we are loving enough to establish our own families, despite the threats we receive and failure to get the same benefits as everyone else outside of our community. We're your gay and lesbian sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, mothers or fathers, neighbor, priest or minister or rabbi or other religious leader, store attendant, performers, instructors, government workers -- everywhere, in every walk and class of life. Treat us with the equality you, yourselves, expect to receive from other people. Show us the same concern you are so willing to show other victims of the 9/11 who also died that day. Why are deaths in our community any different from theirs? Include us as part of the humanity we are all a part of, and with the respect you would wish to have your own family accorded. For we are of your own families! Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-20 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 dojR002360.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. 2002-03-20