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. Monday, March 11, 2002 1:10 PM Sept 11 Victims Fund Disparity Mr. Feinberg (and President Bush), I was shocked to hear your comments on Meet the Press in which you said that the only way gay partners of Sept. 11 victims would receive compensation is if their states recognize their unions legally. Come on, Mr. Feinberg and President Bush, you should be ashamed. After all this country has been through, you will hide behind unjust state laws when it comes to the victims of Sept. 11, the country¹s ³heroes²? I hope that you are going to quickly reexamine that policy and decide that, as with all other national efforts to canonize these victims of terror (as in, forgiving 2001 taxes, overlooking illegal alien status) you will stand up for what your fund and our government have determined is ³justice² for these victims and treat ALL survivors equally, including same-sex partners and children of such unions. As a taxpaying voter and one who knows of many incidents in which ³victims² have suffered at the hands of American terrorists (criminals) and received little or no special compensation, I have been a bit put off by how much money has flowed into the hands of the Long Island house wives who lost a loved one. What about the domestic partners and house husbands? I am appalled that President Bush¹s thinly-veiled homophobia, ³Christian values² would taint the equitable distribution of the exorbitant proportion of survivor funds. Please stand up for justice and include ALL surviving homosexual partners of Sept. 11 victims in the compensation distribution. And please make sure that other victims in America are also not forgotten, not the child of the woman in California who died of a car accident on Sept. 11, or the one who lost her father to cancer on Sept. 11, or the thousands of Americans struck by unjust tragedy every day who don¹t have a special fund to help them. Sincerely, Individual Comment Atlanta, GA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-11 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 dojR000111.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. 2002-03-11