dojR000265.xml

dojR000265.xml

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2002-03-11

Monday, March 11, 2002 5:31 PM
I donated to this fund thinking it was fair


I was wrong!

I am in shock that on Sunday morning's "Meet the Press," Kenneth Feinberg,
the head of the September 11 Victim's Compensation Fund (a program of the US
Dept. of Justice), is planning on limiting what kind of compensation goes to
gay and lesbian victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks. And the way
the rules read, gays and lesbians will probably get nothing. Forget that

, a gay man, was one of the heroes who brought United Flight 93
down in a field in Pennsylvania
instead of on top of the US Congress, where it was supposedly headed. And
forget that
was gay, as was
the
. No, according to John Ashcroft's Justice Department, apparently some heroes are more equal than
others.

I did not contribute to this fund thinking that some victims were more
'equal' than others!
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2002-03-11