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 16, 2002 12:26 AM Fw: Sept 11 fund discrimination I am concerned about apparent efforts by homosexuals to try and reap inappropriate political benefit from the tragedy of Sept. 11. In particular, I'm referring to their belief that friends/partners of homosexuals who died in the plane crashes should receive compensation. Why should live-in friends of homosexuals who died be given special consideration? To do so would be discriminating against heterosexuals. Just because homosexuals live together doesn't make them special, just as two heterosexual friends who might choose to live together aren't special. Homosexuals who live together and call themselves partners should not be given consideration above and beyond that given to heterosexuals -- be they male or female -- who choose to live together without the benefit of marriage. I'm all for treating homosexuals as heterosexuals are treated. For example, I consider every person on flight 93 who fought back against terrorists to be heroes -- no matter their sex, race, age, religion, sexual orientation or any other characteristic. However, to give homosexuals special treatment is discriminating against heterosexuals. Therefore, it would be completely wrong and would open the government to class action lawsuits to compensate any friend a homosexual victim leaves behind, without also compensating any friend a heterosexual victim leaves behind. Please don't allow militant homosexuals to succeed in their twisted and politically self-serving efforts to equate lack of monetary support for friends homosexual victims leave behind with supposed discrimination against the homosexuals who died that day. To refuse to compensate live-in partners and other friends of homosexuals who died on Sept. 11 is completely appropriate, just as it is completely appropriate to refuse to compensate live-in partners and other friends of heterosexuals who died on Sept. 11. This whole idea smacks of political correctness -- placing prejudice and favoritism over objectivity and fairness. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-16 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 dojR000890.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. 2002-03-16