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. Thursday, December 20, 2001 5:34 PM Subject: Allow Non-Traditional Families Access to Victim Compensation Fund Thursday 12-20-01 Kenneth L. Zwick, Director Office of Management Programs U.S. Department of Justice Dear Mr. Zwick, I would like to voice my support for allowing survivors from non-traditional and same-sex families to receive benefits from the "September 11 Victim Compensation Fund". Although most of these persons do not currently enjoy legal recognition of their relationships, their families are just as tightly woven (in the majority of cases) and just as important to them as are the family members of more traditional man/wife/children families to each other. We're talking about basic fairness here. While it may take decades to gain legal recognition of these non-traditional families, and while many of these families will continue to suffer from unfair discrimination in the meantime, you and the U.S. Dept. of Justice have the opportunity to see that ALL families affected by the September 11 tragedy have access to the funds set aside specifically for their compensation. Paraphrasing the words of the Rev. Troy Perry, the founder of the Metropolitan Community Churches, "their pain is no less, their loss is no less". I think there should be criteria in place for determining and assuring that people claiming compensation under this Fund did have an established, on-going interdependence of a familial nature with one or more of the September 11th victims. It would obviously be up to you to determine exactly what these criteria should be. I would suggest that while they do need to clearly establish the existence of a significant relationship, they should not be overly restrictive or burdensome. Thank you for considering my opinion in this matter, Individual Comment Hutto, TX September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-20 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 dojN000056.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. 2001-12-20