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 3:05 PM disgusted Hello, I have heard that you will not be giving the same reparations to families and partners of gay and lesbian relationships. I think this is disgusting and people like you make me ashamed to be an American. It is not your right to judge people, but you were elected to treat them fairly, that is your job, that is what we pay you for. Even people who are not Americans, illegal aliens are going to be given more than these gay and lesbians...I am glad that we are taking care of people who are not American who suffered in this attack, but to omit or treat differently a group of people because you don't like who they sleep with is frankly unconstitutional. Many gay and lesbian lives were lost, many of whom fought bravely to save us from even more death and disaster. I would think that we as Americans should embrace our differences and have more compassion for our peers as we would the the people we love in our own lives. I will continue to protest this and I will make it known on my website and I will march on Washington if I have to. You are not God, you are the government, you are acting a lot like the people who caused this tragedy to begin with. The Taliban executed gay and lesbians, you are acting much like they did executing their inalienable rights, trying to make them invisible and unimportant, remember this...gays and lesbians are a part of your community whether you like it or not, they vote and they contribute significantly to our economy. And contrary to what you might think no one knows the word of God, no man has the right to judge another human being as God would, just who the hell do you think you are? This is the meat of what revolutions are made of. 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 dojR001027.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