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 20, 2002 9:18 PM Compensation to the loved one of Gay Victims As a Lesbian who has been in a committed, monogamous relationship for ten years I am outraged that the partners of the gay victims of the 9/11 tragedy will not be offered the same compensation as the families of heterosexual victims. Kenneth Feinberg's reasoning is ludicrous. If gays and lesbians are left out of his program to the extent that their own states don't include them, how does he justify offering benefits to illegal aliens who are being coaxed into coming forward to make claims by an assurance from the Attorney General of the US that they will not be penalized and neither will their employers. Am I missing something or is Feinberg being selective about the laws that will be ignored and those that will be enforced? Personally I have no problem with illegal aliens being compensated. They, like all others including gay and lesbians, who have had to deal with the gut wrenching agony of losing their loved ones, deserve it. My problem is with the homophobia and hypocrisy of our government officials. Individual Comment Royal Oak, Michigan September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-20 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 dojR002436.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. 2002-03-20