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. Monday, March 18, 2002 1:27 PM 911 Fund I have recently been made aware of the fact that money donated to help the victims of the September 11th attacks is being given to families of victims on one condition... they must be heterosexual. According to an article (http://uspolitics.about.com/library/weekly/aa031102a.htm), the head of the September 11 fund stated on Meet the Pressthat although money would be available to illegal immigrants, gay partners of the victims would not be eligible to receive the same funds. There is no other explanation for this other than outright discrimination of homosexual people. Since the terrorist attacks, I have seen more patriotism and compassion in America. However, I have also seen more finger-pointing, more racism, and more discrimination in general. One would think that in times of crisis, people would come together. However, actions like those taken by the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund proves that this country as a whole is still too intolerant of those who are labeled as "different." Discrimination is not the answer to defeating terrorism or to making this world a better place. It is, however, the cause of events such as those that occurred on September 11. Discrimination has plagued this nation since its birth. It has lead to nothing but hatred, which, unfortunately, doesn't discriminate. Whether a person is Jewish, American, African, gay, straight, atheist, religious, or otherwise, that person can still feel pain. Please, don't discriminate. Individual Comment Springfield, IL September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-18 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 dojR001932.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. 2002-03-18