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. Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:17 AM How Un-AMERICAN CAN WE BE. To Whom It May Concern: I was outraged to learn that the partners of gay and lesbian victims of Sept. 11 will not automatically receive the same benefits as heterosexual victims' spouses. The September 11 Victim Compensation Fund will apparently even provide for fetuses and illegal aliens -- but not homosexual partners. This blatant discrimination is so totally un-American that it sickens me. What makes some American heroes more equal than others, simply because they are heterosexual? The terror of 9/11 should have united our country -- but here again is division. How sad that some have learned SO LITTLE from such a great loss. Each life that was lost was a tragedy -- not just heterosexual lives. Therefore the partners of the homosexual heroes of 9/11 deserve the same compensation that ANY victim's family receives. SHAME on the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund for such horrific discrimination in the wake of this tragedy. Its incomprehensible to me how you could arbitrarily cut out a significant portion of these families. I am appalled at your actions and only hope that you come to your senses and act sensibly. A disappointed American, Individual Comment Annandale, VA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-19 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 dojR002161.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. 2002-03-19