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. Friday, December 07, 2001 4:16 PM September 11 Victims Fund Kenneth L. Zwick, Director Office of Management Programs U.S. Department of Justice Dear Mr. Zwick, Attorney General Ashcroft, and All Involved in the Administration of Justice: I am writing to state my concern about the use of money in the September 11 Victims Compensation Fund. I am primarily concerned that these funds be used to assuage the pain and loss felt by ALL families affected by this horrible attack on our nation. This means including the families of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered victims. I assure you, despite our government's lack of recognition of relationships between people of the same gender, the pain felt by those who lost partners, lovers, and co-parents is real and the effects on their lives will be devastating. I call your attention to the brave young gay man who lost his life on the plane attempting to save the lives of innocent people in Pennsylvania, the openly gay copilot on that same flight, the young gay couple and their adopted three year old son who were killed on one of the flights, to the gay priest who lost his life while ministering at Ground Zero, and to the many lesbian and gay employees working in the World Trade Center. It is vitally important now that our government treat all of our families with dignity and respect and equality. There was much doubt among those of us in the majority who did not vote for President Bush as to whether or not his pick for Attorney General would be capable of seeing past his own biases to dispense justice to ALL people. This is the first major test of that question. We are waiting with hope in our hearts and prayers on our lips that the Attorney General and the Justice Department will indeed help to bring about justice based on what is right and necessary, rather than personal point of view. I urge you to follow the example already set by New York Governor Pataki in granting compensation benefits: "on a showing of mutual interdependence with the victim, in recognition that anyone who shared with the victim living expenses, day-to-day activities and the emotional bonds of family deserves help in this time of need." This is a great test of our country, and we are proud of the effort and good faith shown by our government and President so far. Please do not let down the hundreds of gay and lesbian families affected by these horrible events at this, their most vulnerable time. Sincerely, Individual Comment New Haven, CT September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-12-07 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 dojA001306.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. 2001-12-07