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. Thursday, November 29, 2001 5:46 AM Inclusion of Alternative Families Dear Mr. Kenneth Zwick, First, thank you for taking the time to invite and consider comments from the public on this issue. The events of Sept 11th will continue to pull at the hearts and consciences of millions of people in many different ways in the weeks and months ahead. As you ponder the administration of the compensation fund, I urge you to consider the feelings and needs of the family members of same sex partners who lost loved ones in this tragedy. While our nations laws offers no, or very limited resources and rights to this group of people, legally or financially, many do chose to establish families and households. These family units support, share, and sacrifice on all the same levels as those of heterosexuals, and on many other level as a result of prejudice and lack of legal support. The loss of a loved partner or parent is felt the same way emotionally whether they are homosexual or heterosexual. Financially the ramifications are often more severe for a homosexual family and providing equal support from this fund for surviving partners and children of all same sex relationships is simply the right thing to do. Whatever your personal feelings regarding same sex relationships, I merely ask you to believe that some feelings show no discrimination....such as love. Thank you again for your time and consideration. Individual Comment Fairborn, Ohio September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-29 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 dojA000175.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. 2001-11-29