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Hereford and The Old U
November 30, 1977 - The Cavalier Daily

... According to L. Hereford Jr, almost everything was rationed, during the war years. "Half a dozen bottles of beer were very difficult to get. Cigarettes were also very hard to come by."

"It was very different then," he says. "There was an all-out commitment to win the war. People in ROTC wanted to wear their uniforms all the time. Often times friends and fraternity brothers were killed," he says. "That was very hard," he adds.

If Hereford's recollections of World War II days are somber, his memories of 1945 were not. "It was the year after the war and a very happy year with lots of parties," he recalls. A member of Alpha Tau Omega (ATO) fraternity, he often frequented girls schools "down the road." ...