sasha chanoff, who taught the boys back in kenya, said it was not easy for them to distinguish betweenal and what was pure fantasy in america. >> chanoff: they're hearing that people have gone to the moon. if you're telling me people have gone to the moon, then they're seeing on tv that a horse can talk. why is a horse talking so different from someone going to the moon? it's hard for people to distinguish what is reality and what is not. some boy saw a street sign that said "dead end," and they thought, "well, if i go down there, am i going to die?" >> simon: then came 9/11 just a few months after the boys got here. they thought they had left that kind of thing far behind forever. >> yel nhial: and it seem that war is following us. wherever we go, war came after us. >> let's pray. >> simon: as it did, once again. the boys weren't surprised by it, not the way americans were. for them, islam and terrorism went together. always had. their reaction was immediate: help the victims. in atlanta, they offered to donate blood to the survivors in new york, but they were turned away. >> yel nhia