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. Saturday, March 16, 2002 1:50 PM A valued opinion Victim's Compensation Board: I belong to a gay list which updated me on your policy of discrimnation. I was shocked to find out that monies are being withheld from the partners of gay and lesbian victims of September 11th. I did NOT realize that their lives were LESS IMPORTANT than other victim's families. I believe that the right approach is to compensate ALL vicitm's families regardless of sexual oreintation if the claim is a valid one. Equal distribution of funds acknowleges that EVERY person who died had value whether they were poor or rich, legal or illegal,american or foreign, heterosexual or not. We have all suffered enough without further degradations of this nature. IF I have to write to my congressman or even the President of the United States, I will. I was in New York City at the time of September 11th and I am a former New Yorker who attended graduate school at New York University and worked in the city. It will always be an integral part of who I am and I am not embarrassed to proclaim my homosexuality. I DO NOT find it relevant in assessing my self worth:I donated supplies,attended rallies, and volunteered at Nino's serving professionals who were working at Ground Zero site. I contriubuted as an AMERICAN first and that was how I was seen among the many who volunteered their time. Remember that during World War II, gay were disparaged and killed. They still have not received compensation for their injuries and indiginities they went through during the war. Are you equating the gay victim's families the same way? History will NOT be kind to those who do. Sincerely, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-16 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 dojR000939.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. 2002-03-16