MORENO VALLEY, CA — The photograph is kind of faded now, creased at the edges, a relic from a lifetime ago. It shows a young child with a determined gaze, barely 9 years old, standing right at the edge of a choice that would shift not just his own path but later ripple out, over decades and continents. That boy was Albert R. Renteria, and the decision he made 52 years ago at 17 to join the United States Marine Corps was, in his own words, “ a matter of survival.” “If not, certainly, this child would not have reached…