Posted at 11:11 a.m., Wednesday, September 11, 2002
Lei drape necks of many in N.Y.
By James Gonser
Advertiser Staff Writer
After the service, she slowly walked to her office near Ground Zero and noticed several people wearing lei.
"I started seeing people wearing orchid lei," she said. "At first I thought they were family members that flew in that had lost someone. But I saw so many of them, and not that many people from the state of Hawai'i perished that day."
"I just wanted to say a thank you to whoever did this project," Cressman said. "It was wonderful. I know what a lei means, and this is Hawai'i's way of sending a gift of aloha, of warmth. That lei means everything."
Several groups in Hawai'i have send gifts to the residents of New York today, including Tim Farley, who organized the "Gifts of Aloha" project that sent 12,000 lei to New York for ceremonies today.
