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. Tuesday, March 12, 2002 1:23 PM Question re: Kenneth Feinberg and the September 11th Fund I could not beleave what I read in the "Meet the Press" transcripts as it applied to the 911 Fund. According to the excerpt below if state law discriminates against gay people, then so will Feinberg and the 911 Fund. The problem for gay Americans who lost loved ones on September 11 is that most states do not legally recognize gay relationships, and the very few that do tend to do so only for state employees, not for citizens at large. And while a handful of cities do in fact recognize such relationships, under Feinberg's formula, it's the state's law that counts, not the city's. What is the purpose of the Fund? If it is to help in its on small way to rectify such a national tragidy as it effected loved ones and families, then why are specific loved ones and families being leftout? The gay people that have been robbed by this tragidy are so small in number compared to all others that are not being discriminated against. Why cause such a hurt to these people when it would only take so little to help them. Please reconsided the statement made by Kenneth Feinberg on NBC's "Meet the Press," March 10, 2002 and make this thing right for all people -- not just the ones that are socially exceptable. On this six-month anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, don't let Kenneth Feinberg and the September 11th Fund tell the American people that regardless of whether a gay man was one of the four heroes on United Flight 93 who saved the US Congress and the White House from utter annihilation, the 911 Fund plans to discriminate against an American hero because most of the country sanctioned such discrimination prior to September 11. Please, Please help all people who were directly effected by this national tragidy! Please don't allow any of the hero's to be seen as anything but. Thank you Individual Comment Houston, TX September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-12 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 dojR000441.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. 2002-03-12