More than 500 tickets have been sold for tonight’s dinner at Anthony’s Pier Nine. The event, a fund raiser for the National Purple Heart of Honor, is likely to net more than $150,000 (including donations).
Gen. (Ret.) David H. Petraeus is the guest speaker. Congressmen Kurt Gibson and Sean Patrick Maloney were due to join him. But with Congress still in session, both men will have to remain in Washington, D.C.
Alan Seidman, a 1970 Cornwall graduate and the general’s classmate, will serve as the master of ceremonies.
