Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin will be the guest of honor at an event later this year in The Villages to support injured veterans.
The “Indy Orchid Gala” will take place May 20 at Savannah Center. The event is being put on by Villagers for Veterans Inc. The goal is to raise enough money for two Track Chairs, specialized All Terrain Vehicles that enable severely wounded veterans to regain some of their independence, according to Villager and event chairwoman Marie Bogdonoff. The chairs are $15,000 each.
Griffin joined Fox News in 1999 as a Jerusalem-based correspondent. Griffin reported on the deadly shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. and the 2013 National Security Administration (NSA) leaks involving the former NSA government contractor Edward Snowden and the NSA’s wide-ranging surveillance activities. Additionally, she has covered the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012 and the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011. She has secured major interviews with former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in Vietnam in 2012 and General David Petraeus in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2010
For more information about the event, visit www.villagersforveterans.org
For tickets you can call Bogdonoff at (516) 220-5068.
