dojA001500.xml

dojA001500.xml

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2001-12-12

Wednesday, December 12, 2001 10:10 AM
Take a moment to consider your actions.

Kenneth L. Zwick,
Director, Office of Management Programs, U.S. Department of Justice

My name is .

I am requesting that the Justice Department include among relatives
eligible forcompensation those who lost their life partners as well as de facto
parents or children, without regard to sexual orientation or marital
status.

I am asking that the U.S. Government 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."

Considering the tragedy so deeply experienced by all of us... let's not
let down those who need our help the most, the one's who survived the
lost of oa loved one.

Individual Comment
Richmond, VA

2001-12-12