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. Tuesday, March 26, 2002 2:51 AM Disrimination of 9/11 I just finished reading an article about the September 11 relief funds that made me ashamed to be in this country. It sickens me that a person of illegal status in the country can receive funds, but someone born and raised, who works each day, pays their taxes, and is a credit to the country, cannot receive this fund, only because of the sexual preference they have. I do believe that it is illegal in this country to discriminate against people because of ones sexuality. I know it's against the law to discriminate against people because of their religion, if they have HIV/AIDS, if they're female, or if they have a different skin color, and no one slides on those rules, they're set in stone. So why is this law able to bend? Why can people look the other way a gay man or a lesbian women is concerned? Did they not suffer the same? Was the pain not as real because they came home and cried with a person of the same sex instead of the opposite? Were their tears not as frequent? Their heartache not as real? Is a person of less value because of a choice in their life? And may I add that it is not a choice to be gay, it is a choice to be open about being gay. So would you rather have people hide their true selves from the world? To be fake and pretend to be happy with the wife they don't love and the kids born into a fake relationship? I think that would constitute much more of a problem then a few people looking the other way when a male couple walks down the street. This entire ordeal has made me sick, and more ashamed of my American blood then I ever thought possible to be. Isn't this the land of freedom? The land when people are free to be themselves, no matter what anyone else thinks of them. The land of opportunity. Shouldn't everyone have the opportunity to grieve? To receive the same treatment as every other person during a time of great sadness? If this is what the government calls Freedom and Opportunity then someone needs to hand them a dictionary. Or better yet, put them in the shoes of a gay man, a person infected with HIV/AIDS, an Atheist, A women, and see how well they hold up, see how many things are changed. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-26 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 dojR002727.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. 2002-03-26