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Foreign volunteers from '48 war
reunite and remember in Israel
Brian Hendler
Smokey Simon, center, is flanked by two of his grandsons at a May 7, 2008 reunion in Israel of volunteers who fought in the country's War of Independence.
A group of foreign volunteers in Israel's 1948 War of Independence met on the eve of Israel's 60th birthday to swap war stories and remember how things were in the days after the Jewish state was born.

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