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. Saturday, March 23, 2002 12:55 PM September 11 Victim's Compensation Sirs: It has come to my attention that the September 11 Victim's Compensation Fund will not be paying any compensation to life-partners of any of the gay and lesbian victims of the attacks on September 11, but there will be compensation for the families of illegal aliens and foreigners who were victims. Had I known that this was to be the case, I would never have made any contribution to the fund. Those victims who were lesbian and gay and who have life partners are being discriminated against outright, and as the body who enforces justice in this country, the Department of Justice is committing a grave error. This discrimination has completely destroyed any feeling of patriotism that the attacks of September 11 instilled in me, an American gay male who votes. I will find out who is responsible for including such language in the compensation fund's charges, and I will do everything in my power to see that they are not reelected, if indeed they have been elected. I also want to know why, as the justice enforcement arm of the government, your department does not seek to end discrimination in this country which denies basic rights supposedly enjoyed by all Americans, but which short-sighted and narrow-minded politicans continue to curtail. I am completely diillusioned and disgusted by our government. Individual Comment Pawleys Island, SC September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-23 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 dojR002660.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. 2002-03-23