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. Wednesday, March 27, 2002 10:09 PM Exclusion of Gays and Lesbians As someone born and raised in New York City, I watched in horror as the towers I watched being built from Xaverian High School in Brooklyn crumbled. As an American I was angered at the senselessness of the destruction and the extinguishing of countless thousands of innocent lives. Like many, my sense of helplessness, my inability to embrace those who lost a loved one was somewhat mitigated by contributing to the 9/11 Fund. As a gay man, I am ashamed to have contributed to a Fund that has so blatantly and with such transparently flimsy justification chosen to exclude gay men and lesbians from receiving compensation from the Fund solely because they are gay men and lesbians who as partners have lost a loved one. While I certainly do not begrudge those who will benefit from the fund, I will certainly never again contribute to any such "general relief" fund administered by a governmental agency like the DOJ. The actions of the special master have taken one tragedy and added another to it. Individual Comment San Diego, CA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-27 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 dojR002777.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. 2002-03-27