Scott Swanson
Of The New Era
It was 1942 in Sweet Home and Tom Hufford and seven of his buddies determined they weren?t going to wait to be drafted to serve in World War II.
?We decided it was time to join something besides the Army,? said Hufford, an alert man with a dry sense of humor who will be 83 this Dec. 2.
So in August 1942 Hufford, then 19, his older brother Frank…