American Legion Hall

208 W. Main St.

Bellevue, Ohio
September 13, 2008

Tour the
Tremont House
101 East Main
October 11, 2008
1-4 p.m.
“Peek into the Past”
Sponsored by
Bellevue Historical Society
and Heritage Museum
 Pledge of Allegiance

Welcome................................Mayor David Kile

Introduction........................................Bill Oddo

Speaker..................Col. Bruce B.G. Clarke Ret.

COL. BRUCE B.G. CLARKE RET.

Program

* HQs dedication at Fort Bragg

Bruce Clarke is the son of LTC Arthur F. Gorham who grew up on Belle

of building to honor
Avenue in Bellevue. He is a retired Army Colonel with extensive strategic,
operational and tactical experience. He is widely published on a myriad of

former Bellevue World War II hero

strategic and operational subjects and has made numerous presentations

Lt. Col. Arthur Gorham

around the country on subjects of strategic relevance. His most recent pres-
entation was near Gela, Sicily, where he was the keynote speaker for the 65th
anniversary of operation Husky — the invasion of Sicily during World War

* The Ponte Dirrilo Ceremony

II where his father was killed.
Immediately prior to his retirement from the Army, Colonel Clarke was the

to honor fallen heroes

director of U.S. National Security Studies at the U.S. Army War College in
Carlisle, Pa., where he held the General Dwight D. Eisenhower Chair in

in World War II battle at Gela, Sicily

National Security. Before that he commanded a 5,000 man armored brigade
in the First Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas. Colonel Clarke also
served in the State Department during the Reagan Administration as a sen-

* Book written by Col. Clarke

ior military officer in arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union.
In the early 1980s, Colonel Clarke commanded a 1,000 man armored cav-

“Expendable Warrior, The Battle of Khe Sanh

alry squadron in West Germany responsible for patrolling over 150 kilome-

and the Vietnam War”

ters of the East-West German border. Colonel Clarke is also a veteran of the
Viet Nam War. Colonel Clarke fought at the famed Khe Sanh Combat Base
in 1968. His book on his experiences in Viet Nam, Expendable Warriors:
The Battle of Khe Sanh and the Vietnam War has recently been published and

* Vietnam-Iraq
is the subject of his presentation this evening.
Colonel Clarke is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West
Point and holds a master of arts degree from the University of California,
Los Angeles. He also is a graduate of the Command and General Staff
College at Fort Leavenworth and the National War College.