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 8:01 PM 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund I would like to express my outrage that partners of gay and lesbian heroes of September 11 will not automatically receive the same benefits as the spouses of heterosexual victims of the horrible terror attacks. Even fetuses and illegal aliens will be receiving benefits from this fund. Contrary to federal law, families of illegal aliens are promised compensation. Yet the life partners of heroes like &nbsp who helped bring down the flight in Pennsylvania, NY Fire Dept. &nbsp who died in the line of duty when the first tower fell, and &nbsp who was &nbsp of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon are to be treated with less regard than illegal aliens. Since September 11, we have been encouraged by the President and public leaders to exercise tollerance toward those with different beliefs than our own. What argument can be offered to justify intollerance to partners of gays and lesbians who were equally victimized by this tragedy. Our country be a beacon of freedom and tollerance. We MUST set, for the world, an example of tollerance--tollerance for ALL PEOPLE, not just straight ones. I urge you to grant partners of gay and lesbians in the Victim Compensation Fund equal compensation. Don't trivialize the deaths of these Americans. Individual Comment Plano, TX 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 dojR001215.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