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,

The July 4 tragedy at Camp Mystic outside of Hunt, Texas, was concentrated at just two cabins where Mystic’s youngest campers bunked and where a confluence of rising water from the river and a normal...