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 11:24 PM All Americans My name is and I am gay. I have been in a relationship for over four years, and I find it very difficult to take the announcement that you are not going to treat with the same guidelines, compassion and consideration as other AMERICANS, those gay and lesbians affected directly by 9/11. They are just as much AMERICAN as anyone else. You may not agree with personal decisions, but overcoming evil and hate has to start at home with letting go of what is obviously not right just because of being different. America is made up all of differences in people. To hold on to one set of differences (treating gay and lesbians as less human or American) is only adding fuel to the fire in favor of those that attacked us on September 11th because of differences. You really should be ashamed. Someday we will have the same rights as every other American. But, someone has to stand up and face this fact and take a stance in the right direction in order to for this to progress further. Most everyone has someone in their family or knows of someone (friend, colleague, etc.) whom is gay or lesbian. Do you want them to be treated like this? Just because someone was born in America, gay or lesbian, does not give anyone else the right to take away their American rights. I think you should reconsider your decision to exclude a group of American's based on how they were born. It is very wrong. Laws or no laws. It is just wrong. 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 dojR001281.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