"Operation Purple" camp in Santa Barbara allows children whose mothers or fathers are deployed by the military to have some summer fun with other kids who know exactly what they're going through.
The camp, exclusively for children of deployed parents, is organized by the National Military Family Association, which runs 34 camps in 26 states.
Tanna Schmidli, chairman of the board of the association, says the camp allows the kids to "just to open up and to be together, to learn that it's OK to support one another." 
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