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. Monday, March 11, 2002 10:59 AM 11 Sept Compensation Funds SHOULD NOT discriminate against gay families... Dear Mr. Feinberg, it is mean-spirited, cruel, and un-American to discriminate against gay families who had victims killed and injured in the 11 September terrorist events. I do not wish for my tax dollars to be misspent in this way. To support this decision based on supporting state laws that are discriminatory laws illustrates that the Bush administration lacks moral courage. In the struggle for African American civil rights, how could the states who discriminated have understood that they were morally wrong without the Federal government illustrating more principled leadership that stood on higher ground? The Federal government, the Kennedy administration, did not use the cover of states sueing in order to support unethical and inhumane treatment. Perhaps if the states (that have these discriminatory laws which proactively choose to make gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered families second class) had to spend their state funds to sue the federal government, and the federal government had to spend money to defend against these suits, the citizenry would come to understand the negative economic impact to their state and their own quality of life by supporting such discriminatory laws, and would move expeditiously to repeal them. In the past few years we have been witness to people like the Pope, on behalf of the Catholic Church, and &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp making apologies for anti-Semitic remarks and actions which caused great harm to Jews. Will you want to be going on the record some years from now apologizing for the harm your actions bespeak now, or will you choose to do the right thing? There's a 3-year old girl somewhere in this country, daughter of a widowed mother who lost her lesbian partner of many years on Sept. 11, and she doesn't understand why you, on behalf of all of us, are mistreating her and her family. Her loss is already huge, to have lost one of her two custodian parents, and be present for the bereavement and suffering of the surviving partner. Can you explain your decision to her in a way that doesn't make this action sound reprehensible? I find my government's decision a different kind of terrorism in our own country and I cannot let it pass unnoticed. Sincerely, Individual Comment Atlanta, GA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-11 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 dojR000157.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. 2002-03-11