Local veterans' stories headed to Library of Congress : Ex-Isleta governor's Vietnam account among those preserved

For Paul Torres, joining the U.S. Navy was an easy decision. He didn't want to see the enemy face-to-face. "To shoot somebody before they shot me, I didn't want that," he said. The Vietnam War was raging. He was concerned about being drafted. "A lot of my friends were drafted," Torres said. "They went into the Army." Torres' story of his military service is being preserved as part of the Veterans History Project of the American Folklife Center with the Library of Congress. Torres - who serves as...