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, March 14, 2002 10:01 PM discrimination in the fund To whom it may concern. My name is and i would like to voice my objection at the way you have handled the distribution of funds to gay and lesbian partners of those who died in the tragedy of September 11. through various news reports i have come to learn that on Sunday's "meet the press", Kenneth Feinberg announced that the money that will be given to the partners of those who had loved ones pass on September 11 will only be distributed according to state law, without federal interference in the same press conference he also announced that the fund would be open to those who are not American citizens and that the federal law would be overlooked in an effort to be more compassionate to those who lost families in the tardy but for whatever reason are not us citizens. These two conflicting points are not my only concern but only the beginning my main issue is that the federal government has chosen to overlook the many gay and lesbian citizens in the united states and in the process also make a very strong statement indicating that even non-us citizens are more welcomed in this nation than they are. it is a sad day when discrimination is so blatant and accepted that even in a tragedy an entire group of people can be treated like second-class citizens or better not a citizen at all. i am deeply disturbed by this lack of compassion and the inequality that has happened in the wake of what should been a unified time. i am for very good reason, ashamed to be an American in the presence of such discrimination, and i hope that this point is reconsidered and changed. if not, all that we love and cherish about the idea of freedom and equality is lost at the time in which we need it the most. gay and lesbian partners might not equate to the same thing as wives and husbands in the eyes of the law (at least not yet) but their loss and pain is equal, and should be treated as such. to do anything less would be a disgrace to all who died on that day (many of whom were gay) and a disgrace to all we hold dear, especially the idea of "equality". i sincerely hope you rethink this position and do the only thing worth doing, the right thing. With compassion for all. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-14 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 dojR000808.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. 2002-03-14