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, December 04, 2001 7:32 PM Just Compensation to All Survivors December 4, 2001 Office of Management Dept of Justice Dear Mr. Zwick: I write in support of offering benefits and reimbursement to the surviving domestic partner and any children of gay or lesbian victims of the September 11 tragedy. There are already enough horror stories of people being denied any recognition of their relationship to their loved ones killed in this act of terrorism. Need we add more suffering to their lives by denying them the recognition and just compensation needed for them to reorder their lives? The City of New York and the State of New York have set an example of what is the right and decent thing to do in this matter. I hope and trust that the Dept. of Justice will follow this good example and show the world that the American people unite in times of suffering and hardship. It would be terribly ironic and the worst possible message to send if the Dept of Justice decided that discrimination based on religious prejudice should govern acts of charity and justice for the survivors of a tragedy motivated by the same kind of self righteous religious fanaticism. We are a people of diverse ethnic, religious and political persuasions and backgrounds. In such circumstances it is only just that we be generous to all our people. That is our greatness as a people and I trust the Dept. of Justice will make us proud of our heritage by acting generously and compassionately toward all the survivors of the tragedy. Sincerely yours, Individual Comment Storrs, CT September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-04 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 dojA000513.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. 2001-12-04