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 28, 2002 4:05 PM 911fundletter March 28, 2002 Mr. Kenneth L. Zwick, Director Office of Management Programs Civil Division U.S. Department of Justice Main Building, Room 3140 950 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20530 Dear Mr. Zwick, After the tragic events of September 11th, I, like so many of my fellow employees, dug deep to help the poor victims of that fateful day. We raised thousands of dollars just in our office alone, but felt it was a good deed for all the unfortunate victims and survivors. None of us, while digging into our pockets and pocketbooks, ever conceived that your department would exclude someone from receiving compensation simply because they were gay or lesbian. The Justice Department will allow compensation to illegal aliens, which is right, but will not allow compensation to gays and lesbians. I am angry, appalled and ashamed of our government! How could you possibly justify your actions? Thousands of caring citizens gave their hard-earned money to help the victims and their loved ones. Now we discover that the Justice Department will not include any loved ones of homosexual victims to receive any of the Congress appropriated funds. This is absolutely outrageous, and you and Kenneth Feinberg should hang your heads in disgrace. I am a heterosexual female, with friends of all races, religions and sexual preferences. I always felt we as Americans were so lucky - we had a democratic society accepting all peoples of the world - but your actions have made me question that now. You must do the right thing and give funds to all survivors and loved ones of the 9/11 victims - whether homosexual, heterosexual, illegal aliens or children born after Setpebmer 11th. Sorrowfully, Individual Comment Charlestown, MA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-28 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 dojR002801.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. 2002-03-28