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Thanks for the link to the Triangle Factory fire -

As I looked up I saw a love affair in the midst of all the horror. A young man helped a girl to the window sill. Then he held her out, deliberately away from the building and let her drop. He seemed cool and calculating. He held out a second girl the same way and let her drop. Then he held out a third girl who did not resist. I noticed that. They were as unresisting as if her were helping them onto a streetcar instead of into eternity. Undoubtedly he saw that a terrible death awaited them in the flames, and his was only a terrible chivalry.
Then came the love amid the flames. He brought another girl to the window. Those of us who were looking saw her put her arms about him and kiss him. Then he held her out into space and dropped her. But quick as a flash he was on the window sill himself. His coat fluttered upward—the air filled his trouser legs. I could see that he wore tan shoes and hose. His hat remained on his head.
Thud—dead, thud—dead—together they went into eternity. I saw his face before they covered it. You could see in it that he was a real man. He had done his best.
We found out later that, in the room in which he stood, many girls were being burned to death by the flames and were screaming in an inferno of flame and heat. He chose the easiest way and was brave enough to even help the girl he loved to a quicker death, after she had given him a goodbye kiss. He leaped with an energy as if to arrive first in that mysterious land of eternity, but her thud—dead came first.

That gives an explanation as to why folks jumped from the Twin Towers.

That gives an explanation as to why folks jumped from the Twin Towers.

The horror of dying in flames or diving 100 stories to certain death will not face us.

Those who were forced to make such a terrible decision must be avenged.

Lots of blood left to shed.

The building in which the Triangle fire happened still stands.

It has since been renamed from the Asch Building to the Brown Building, and it is now part of New York University.

Every March a commemoration is held in the street by the building, and a fire ladder is raised to the maximum height of the ladder that could not reach high enough to save the people who jumped.

If you explore the link I posted, you'll find photos of the ceremony through the years.