Former campers and counselors speak on how the famed Hill Country camp became more than a place for summer games.

Before the floods came, they dreamed of becoming athletes, singers, teachers and just like their big sisters. Of giving back to their communities and making their families proud. Of growing up. When the Guadalupe River rose to historic heights shortly before dawn on the Fourth of July,

Coco Grieshaber, an 8-year-old Camp Mystic alumna, threaded beads into a homemade bracelet at her dining room table, sharing memories of the Texas summer camp that she left four days before flooding devastated the area on Fourth of July weekend.