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, December 05, 2001 3:07 AM Writing "FAIR REGULATIONS' for Sept. 11th Victim Compensation Fund Attention: Kenneth L. Zwick, Director Office of Management Programs, Civil Division U.S. Department of Justice Dear Mr. Zwick, I am writing to you as a grandmother who is hopeful that those of you who are responsible for writing the regulations that govern the implementation of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund will be responsible and fair by including the surviving partners and children of gay and lesbian victims to equal entitlement of the benefits of this fund. It is my understanding that there are some citizen's of this country who wish for the exclusion of benefits for the partners and children of gay and lesbian victims and who are requesting your preclusion of these benefits for them. While I respect everyone's right to have an opinion, I do not respect those citizen's opinions nor their despicably vile actions of urging the U.S. Department of Justice to exclude these survivors of the victims from benefits of this fund. Where is there sanity and justice in a request against these survivors? I wish to acknowledge for the benefit of those citizens who ask you to deny benefits to the partners and children of gay and lesbian victims, that some of these victims and their survivors fought for our freedoms while serving in the military. They also go to places of worship, give to charity, help the community and never ask our government to deny any benefits to those same citizens who oppose justice and fairness to them. In conclusion, I wish to express my feelings that it is not only high time, but equally over due for our Department of Justice, and Our Office of Home Land Security to put an end to the dictatorial, terroristic citizenry(those citizens who request unAmerican regulatory implementation of benefits of the September 11th Fund). Otherwise, we won't have to worry about the terrorists in the Middle East, we'll be destroyed by our own home land citizenry terrorists. Asking that you include the partners and children of gays and lesbians as beneficiaries of the September 11th Compensation Find, and thanking you for your consideration of fairness and justice, I remain Respectfully, Date: December 5, 2001 Individaul Comment Boyertown, PA p.s. As a grandmother, I pray that my my grandchildren will someday live in an America that is not governed by legislation created by lobbyists for the selfishness of big businesses or ever have to live with benefits with which entitlement is decided upon by the radical right. Also, I pray for them to be able to drink pristine water which is not contaminated by gasoline leaking into well water and waterways from underground storage tanks (of which there is legislation in place that is not being enforced thereby causing cancer and death to many people). I truly hope for them a homeland whose people can surpass the indifferences of religious beliefs, sexual preferences, and color and ultimately reap the benefits of a truly great America. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-05 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 dojA000668.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. 2001-12-05