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 11, 2002 7:06 PM Comment on Final Rule (and Feinberg's comments yesterday) Dear September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001: It is completely unacceptable that you will give money to illegal aliens -- non-citizens who are in this country in violation of Federal law! -- while witholding money from a group of law-abiding citizens: the gay/lesbian partners of victims who died at World Trade Center. Have you considered that these folks have suffered losses exactly comparable to those who lost husbands and wives? That it is likely that some of them have children who have lost a father or mother? Oh, but you're worried about lawsuits. So, you defer to state law. Sounds so clean and neat.... But, you know that there are no gay/lesbian marriage laws. So, what you are really doing is depriving gay/lesbian spouses of their rightful compensation based upon the prejudices of the people who lived around them. Would you like the validity of YOUR relationship determined by polling your neighbors? I bet not. I bet you'd like to be evaluated on your own merits. I implore you, and demand of you, that you compensate the partners of gay/lesbian victims solely upon the particulars of each case, and WITHOUT regard to local prejudice. Sincerely, Individual Comment NY, NY September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-11 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 dojR000258.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. 2002-03-11