David Petraeus still a hometown hero in Hudson Valley
Photo credit: Meghan E. Murphy | Eamon Fallon, owner of the South Gate Tavern in Highland Falls, displays a medal for excellence sent to the bar owner by ex-CIA Director David Petraeus. Petraeus patronized the bar when he was a cadet at the nearby U.S. Military Academy. Fallon said he still holds Petraeus in high regard despite the scandal surrounding his resignation. (Nov. 11, 2012)
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Eamon Fallon stood quietly behind his bar at the South Gate Tavern in Highland Falls, holding in his hand a metal coin embossed with the words "For Excellence, David Petraeus."
"I still hold him in the highest regard," Fallon said, holding out the collectible sent to him by the retired general after a visit in 2010 to West Point and Orange County. Petraeus had remembered the watering hole,...
