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 2:37 PM In Memory of And So Many More FOR THE RECORD: I am a Christian heterosexual woman who has been married to the same man for over twenty years and I am OUTRAGED at the treatment given to the families of the homosexual victims of September 11. I do not want to believe that my fellow Americans can assert that the pain and suffering of these people somehow matters less simply because of their sexual preferences. They are as God made them, just as we heterosexuals are--as beautiful, as loved, and as worthy of being loved as are we. Three of these victims have received special attention in all this-- &nbsp , who helped keep one of the planes from crashing into the U.S. Congress; &nbsp , who died while ministering to one of the World Trade Center victims; and &nbsp , who was the &nbsp of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon. We have seen their faces--heard from their families--mourned their loss. How can we now deny them equal dignity? How do we declare the lines of these heroes unworthy of recognition? The fight for civil rights, fur the human rights of our fellow citizens still has a long way to go in this country. A fitting step, and appropriate step, an imperative step in this march should be and can be and--please God--WILL be equal treatment under the law and equal treatment in love for all of US who have been touched by this event. Our response to their carnage was to pull together. No one asked about the color of the victims pulled out of the wreckage. No one refused to be rescued by a Good Samaritan who didn't have matching skin color. No one demanded that his or her donation go only to those who showed the proper church attendance. Let's not start doing identity checks now. Our enemies declare people non-persons on the basis of difference from themselves and use that declaration to justify their actions. They proclaim the bombings justified because we do not share their faith. Their women are treated as property because they do not share the Taliban's physiology. Those of their own people who disagree with them are tortured and killed for sport in the name of their God. Our country, our own president has declared this behavior EVIL. Let us not imitate them. We know better. Our history as a nation of immigrants has taught us how much stronger we get when we accept the unique gifts that every group of people has brought to our shores. Let us not turn our back on who we are. Let's not let the Taliban win. Patriotic American 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 dojR000996.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