dojR000094.xml
Title
dojR000094.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
email
Date Entered
2002-03-11
September 11 Email: Body
Monday, March 11, 2002 3:33 PM
Who gets compensated?
To All Concerned
Sunday morning's "Meet the Press," Kenneth Feinberg, the head of the
September 11
Victim's Compensation Fund (a program of the US Dept. of Justice), is
planning
on limiting what kind of compensation goes to gay and lesbian victims of the
September 11 terrorist attacks. And the way the rules read, gays and
lesbians
will probably get nothing. Forget that
, a gay man, was one of
the heroes who brought United Flight 93 down in a field in Pennsylvania
instead of on top of the US Congress, where it was supposedly headed. And
forget that NY Fire Department
was gay, as was
the
. No, according to John
Ashcroft's Justice Department, apparently some heroes are more equal than
others.
I just cannot express the depth of my anger. It's as though Ashcroft and
the Fund are suggesting that gay Americans did not suffer as much as
everybody else on September 11.
Yours,
Individual Comment
Who gets compensated?
To All Concerned
Sunday morning's "Meet the Press," Kenneth Feinberg, the head of the
September 11
Victim's Compensation Fund (a program of the US Dept. of Justice), is
planning
on limiting what kind of compensation goes to gay and lesbian victims of the
September 11 terrorist attacks. And the way the rules read, gays and
lesbians
will probably get nothing. Forget that
, a gay man, was one of
the heroes who brought United Flight 93 down in a field in Pennsylvania
instead of on top of the US Congress, where it was supposedly headed. And
forget that NY Fire Department
was gay, as was
the
. No, according to John
Ashcroft's Justice Department, apparently some heroes are more equal than
others.
I just cannot express the depth of my anger. It's as though Ashcroft and
the Fund are suggesting that gay Americans did not suffer as much as
everybody else on September 11.
Yours,
Individual Comment
September 11 Email: Date
2002-03-11
Collection
Citation
“dojR000094.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 13, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/31549.