CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: In another story here, they are growing up in completely different worlds, but they share a common bond that changed their lives forever after each of them lost a parent to terrorism. Well now they're coming together at a special camp, designed to help them understand one another. CNN's Alex Quade has the story.</s>ALEX QUADE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Afghan and American orphans play together at a place without politics, a special summer camp in Japan. Instead of ghost stories around the campfire, they share haunting memories of losing their parents in the September 11 attacks or the U.S. retaliatory strikes on Afghanistan. Jerrold's dad was a chef. He worked on the 107th floor of one of the World Trade Center towers. On September 11, he never came home. Jerrold's brother, Jerome, is also at the camp.</s>JEROME NEDD, WORLD TRADE CENTER ORPHAN: It was good to know that the Afghanistan kids are not really bad people, that they're really nice and they -- it was just one person, not like a lot of -- the whole country.</s>QUADE: Sentiments echoes by Sardar, who lost his leg when he stepped on a land mine. His father was killed in one of Afghanistan's previous wars.</s>SARDAR KAMALUDDIN, AFGHAN ORPHAN: We have no problem playing with kids from New York. I'm very glad to have come here, because we manage to understand each other.</s>QUADE: A spokesman for the camp run by a Japanese charity says the children need these kind of experiences to recover from their trauma, and to know they are not alone in the world. Alex Quade, CNN.
Afghan, American Orphans Come Together in Special Camp