Ashley Dickens, a nurse and mother in Springfield, Tennessee, was already a bit nervous. She was days away from dropping off her 11-year-old daughter, Natalie, at summer camp, the first time that she would be attending.
Then came the tragedy at Camp Mystic in central Texas, a flood on the Guadalupe River on July 4 that swept away trees, belongings and the lives of more than two dozen campers and staff members.
Dickens and her husband watched the news last weekend with horror, immediately asking themselves whether they could bear taking Natalie to camp after all…