U.S. Army veteran of World War II, passed away at his home in Torrance, California on October 26, 2017 following a short illness. He was 91. 

A native of Los Angeles, Bruce was born in the Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles and raised in Boyle Heights. Bruce was a student at Theodore Roosevelt High School when the war broke out. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which forced Bruce, his family and more than 120,000 Japanese Americans into America's concentration camps.