The Charles Bruce Foundation was founded in 2012 by Chad Bruce. CBF is named after the man who adopted Chad in post WWII Austria. Charles was a veteran of WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. In the early 1940s, he and his three brothers went to a Pittsburgh recruiting office and enlisted. Charles received a WWII field promotion, becoming an officer in the European theater of that war. He later participated in the rebuilding of Europe (that is when and where he and his wife, Mildrid Smith Bruce, adopted little Chad from an Austrian orphanage). Lt. Colonel Bruce retired in 1961. Charles’ adopted son has worked his entire adult life to repay the gifts Charles and Mildred gave him when they adopted him.