http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20041107-054014-5053r.htm

New York, NY, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A Georgia man fatally shot himself at Ground Zero in New York, in what was believed to be a protest against President Bush's reelection and the war in Iraq.

Andrew Veal, 25, a university research worker who was engaged to be married, was found dead Saturday morning on the former site of the World Trade Center, the New York Daily News reported Sunday. Veal left no note or message to explain his actions, but his friends believe it was a political statement.

"I'm absolutely sure it's a protest," said Mary Anne Mauney, Veal's supervisor at the University of Georgia survey research lab. "I don't know what made him commit suicide, but where he did it was symbolic." Mauney said that other than the war and the election, she didn't know what might have been troubling Veal.

When Veal failed to show up at work Wednesday, his co-workers assumed he was upset that Bush had beaten John Kerry in the race for the White House and was taking a few days off.

"We figured he was just devastated," Mauney said.
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wow.. i think its kinda odd that they would assume he killed himself over the election tho. he was engaged to be married too? x_x;

O_O :holyhell: :jawdrop: Oh my God, that's sad. His poor fiancee.

what a moron i dont feel sorry for him at all, anyone that kills themself over the election deserves to die.

this sums up a bit.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/250714p-214638c.html

The Georgia man who killed himself at Ground Zero was upset about President Bush's reelection - but his biggest problem may have been his double life, a source told the Daily News yesterday.

Andrew Veal, 25, was engaged to be married to an Iowa college student, whom he was supposed to see at her sister's wedding in Seattle this weekend. But Veal also had a girlfriend in Athens, Ga., where he lived, sources said.

When cops found his body in lower Manhattan's hallowed ground Saturday morning, they found a note to his girlfriend saying she was "too good" for him, a source said. The note also included a reference to Bush's victory, the source said.

Friends and co-workers said they never had a clue Veal was suicidal.

"I think he wanted it to be dramatic," said one 23-year-old Athens friend. "The election was just a catalyst."

Veal was a peaceful, liberal vegetarian who hated guns, never got worked up about politics or 9/11 and seemed content, friends said.

"He doesn't even have friends who have guns," said Mary Anne Mauney, Veal's boss at a University of Georgia survey research lab. "We're all trying to understand, and nobody does."

Veal and his roommates held an Election Night party in their clapboard house near the University of Georgia campus, where they expected to celebrate a John Kerry victory.

But the day after Bush won, Veal bought a shotgun in an Athens store and drove to New York, a source said, where he went on a spending spree with his girlfriend's credit card.

While his mom and his fiancée tried desperately to reach him by phone, he called an Athens restaurant where he worked part-time and said he was in New York on Thursday.

He was found Saturday morning when a worker at the Millenium Hotel across Church St. from Ground Zero saw him lying on a concrete structure inside the gated and guarded perimeter.

Police from the Port Authority, which controls the 16-acre site, found Veal's car nearby and are reconstructing his movements, spokesman Steve Coleman said.

Among their concerns: How did a shotgun-toting man slip unnoticed into the guarded area - a solemn tourist destination that is also a major rail hub with entrances to Hudson River PATH tunnels?

PA cops and private security guards watch the site, and Coleman would not say if surveillance cameras caught Veal's movements. He asked anyone who may have seen anything unusual Friday night to contact PA police.

Mauney said Veal's mother was in a "terrible" condition after learning of her son's death, and his friends could not fathom why he chose to end it all at Ground Zero.

"He was just an incredibly wonderful person - sensitive, passionate, caring and kind. I'll miss him very much," Mauney said. "As to the whys or hows, nobody knows."

That's still sad, I feel bad for all the people he left behind. This just seems so senseless.

too bad he couldnt come down off the drama llama long enough to consider the feelings of the ppl in his life -_-;

what a moron i dont feel sorry for him at all, anyone that kills themself over the election deserves to die.

i agree, i wount shed even one tear for that dumb ass

too bad he couldnt come down off the drama llama long enough to consider the feelings of the ppl in his life -_-;
there's other news article that says lots a ppl are now going to therapy because they were too upset about election result X'D

in all seriousness, he could've moved to canada or france if he hated here so much.

ppl will do the dumbest things to not liv in a country ruled by a person they do noy like. Well, he screwed up his life. Suicidals shall go to hell. Its sad that he killed himself ovr somthing so stupid. However, i dont feel sorry for him.

Lmao!

If he hated it so much, why didn't he just move to Canada for 4 years, then move back? I don't feel sorry for him :asshole::clap: .

No one should thats the whole point. that wa probably he most stupid act of his belated life to known existance.

dumbass.. ufuckin dumbass deal with it.

Tell it like it is, mimiru.

why does it seem no one has compassion for anyone.

because he doesnt deserve it. It would be like me killing myself because K-Mart bought out sears. or refusing to piss in the toliet because you dont want to polute water.. i mean c'mon. its not like we are going to take Bush out of office if you kill yourself. no one cares, and he will be forgotten before the next election. There were alot of people planning on doing the same thing. It didnt change my vote, they can go ahead. make the world a better place.

gah, still--value for human life! that can't change no matter what. if you killed yourself because of the merger we wouldn't call your life a waste. there's no more need to insult a dead man.