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 2:41 PM To: Mr. Kenneth L. Zwick, Director Office of Management Programs Civil Division U.S. Department of Justice Dear Mr. Zwick, In recent interviews you have stated, as the head of the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund , that the partners of gay and lesbian heroes of September 11 will not necessarily receive the same benefits as the spouses of heterosexual victims of the terrorist attacks. How is that possible? What has this entire life altering event taught us? To be predjudice and dishonest or to have pride and fellowship? According to the article, even fetuses and illegal aliens will be receiving benefits and you will not be punishing American companies that hired illegals in violation of federal labor laws. Just when the country comes together and has EVERYONE fighting for our dreams and commitments, you go and quitely begin to tear apart THE ONLY THING KEEPING THIS COUNTRY TOGETHER: Hope. - who helped bring down the flight in Pennsylvania, had hope. . who died in the line of duty when the first tower fell had hope, and who was of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon had hope. You'd take this away from them and their partners? "If September 11 has taught us anything, it's that our patriotism and love of country transcend our differences and unite us all. We were told that September 11 was the day that "hyphenated-Americans" were no more, and rather than being Italian-Americans, African-Americans or gay-Americans, we were now simply Americans, all of us together as one American family." The only thing that I feel that there is left to say is: the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund and YOUR discrimination is un-American, and I have hope that this will turn out fair, honest, and american. What else is this country fighting for? 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 dojR001003.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