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 19, 2002 6:16 PM Government's 9/11 Fund Exclusions To the Bush Administration and 9/11 Fund Administrator Feinberg: I am disgusted, angered, and disappointed by the recently announced decision to exclude surviving partners of lesbian and gay victims of the 9/11 attacks. That this exclusion is cloaked in an ostensible reliance on state laws is a transparent attempt to deflect responsibiltity by harking to a kind of "state's rights" interpretation - "if they don't recognize 'em, we won't." Mr. Feinberg in a television appearance stressed that with a short life to the fund - 1 1/2 to 2 years - he is not able to follow any path BUT these particular state laws (though the same is not true of other laws and regulations, for example those dealing with immigrants). I would suggest that it is _exactly_ the limited nature of this fund's life and of his mandate that creates a perfect case for NOT discriminating among victims - to determine whose life is, in the case of this fund, literally worth more to the survivors. There can be little rational complaint about "social engineering" or charges of an effort to change state laws when the focus of this fund and its time frame are so limited. In addition, treating the survivors of _all_ victims the same would allow the Bush administration to act upon its rhetoric of U.S. unity and to model equality in the wake of these attacks. Because, make no mistake, I am not suggesting that anyone Mr. Feinberg has already "defined in" be excluded; rather, I want you to treat all survivors the same and bring in those he chose to leave out. As I understand it, that would be the American Way. Individual Comment Minneapolis, Minnesota September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-19 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 dojR002312.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. 2002-03-19