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 1:35 PM 9/11 Fund exclusion of gays I am writing to express my dismay at the 9/11 Compensation Fund's exclusion of gays. Knowing full well that: (1) gays and lesbians do not have marriage/civil union rights in all but 2 states; and (2) state intestacy laws do not include persons other than by blood and marriage, Kenneth Feinberg, supported by the DOJ and the President, seeks sanctuary and protection from claims of discrimination agains gays and lesbians. Paradoxically, the 9/11 Fund includes fetuses and illegal aliens. Are fetuses included in state intestacy laws? No. Do US laws protect illegal aliens' intestacy rights (or most others for that matter)? No. It seems that "compassionate conservativism" applies to some but not others. In these times when all Americans should come together, persons such as Feinberg, John Ashcroft, and George W Bush are catering to divisive right wing elements of the Republican party, some of which, as we well know, blamed certain Americans (gays, feminists, the ACLU) for the atrocities of September 11. I myself am a gay man, a Republican, and an attorney. On all three of these grounds, the 9/11 Fund's discrimination makes me ashamed of my country. 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 dojR001622.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