HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — A picture says a thousand words. For 92-year-old Navy Veteran Duane Hoffman, stacks of photo albums tell his life story.

"I turned 18 when I was a senior in high school, so I got a draft card," Hoffman said. "So I was going to be drafted. And, of course, a couple of my other classmates got the same deal going. I wanted to go into the Air Force, the other two wanted to go in the Navy, and I said, 'Okay, I'll go into the Navy with you.'"

The decision to join the Navy led Hoffman to spend more time behind the camera than in front of it. He said they got to pick a school to attend following Navy boot camp, in which he chose an airman school in Jacksonville, Florida. From there, he said he also chose to go to a photography school in Pensacola, Florida.

"As a graduat

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