Bittersweet victory post 9/11.Ending nearly three years of uncertainty about whether the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund was created by an act of congress shortly after 9/11 to compensate the victims of the attack (or their families) in exchange for their agreement not to sue the airline corporations involved. would include surviving gay and lesbian partners, Nancy Walsh Walsh has several meanings: Mathematics
Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the Flight 11 when it slammed into the World Trade Center, is the first to receive money for the death of a partner who was not a legal heir. "It's sort of bittersweet--sweet since they recognized me for equality reasons but bitter because it was all about my partner being killed," Walsh said. Walsh's attorney, Noah Kushlefsky, said the unspecified Adj. 1. unspecified - not stated explicitly or in detail; "threatened unspecified reprisals" specified - clearly and explicitly stated; "meals are at specified times" award was "no different than it would have been had they been legally married." Walsh, an emergency room nurse in Plaistow, N.H., was raising her three children with Flyzik, the youngest of whom was covered in the award. |
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