Moses F. Diaz
By Trina Berberet
He may have been only 16 at the time, but Moses Diaz decided to enlist in the U.S. Navy because, as he recalled: “I didn’t want to miss out on the war.”
It was 1945, near the end of the World War II, and Diaz completed his basic training in San Diego.
It was his first time away from home and he often wrote letters home to see which of his family and friends had enlisted. His mother, Martina Diaz, had five sons serving in the military during World War II.