R001804
Monday, March 18, 2002 9:11 PM
Disbursement of the 9-11 Fund
I am an American, I am a brother, an uncle, a friend, a business associate, a human being, a tax payer and I also happen to be Gay.
I am not ashamed of any of these BUT I am very disgusted with Mr. Kenneth Feinberg, Head of the September 11 Victim's Compensation Fund that is planning on limiting the kind of compensation that will be given to gay and lesbian victims of the September 11 attacks.
Is this the first step? Will non-Christians be excluded? Will non-whites be next? Why include NON Americans but not us? Am I less than these NON Americans?
We are no different than anyone else; hurt us and we cry, cut us and we bleed as we did in New York on 9-11 and we do in Afghanistan today.
We don't ask for anything special, we ask for the same things allowed to other Americans.
I hope Mr. Feinberg will reconsider his stand and I hope that President Bush will insist that we are treated as Americans PERIOD.
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