Elizabeth Phillips
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And I was like,
these camps i i'm here if you ever want to talk about this whenever you're ready and um i was like i'm not going to be the friend that brings you a lasagna or like a little note with flowers but if you want to talk about camp reform i'm here for it and she goes oh i know exactly what i'm calling you for and i was like i'm pissed she's like i'm so pissed i was like yeah
I'm here.
Then I went and talked to the dad and he gave me the biggest hug and he was like, I'm sorry.
I'm like, why are you saying you're sorry to me?
Your daughter's memorial service.
He was like, I had no idea what you've been going through the last five years, like with Trey and like these camps, man.
I'm like, yeah.
He was like, I'm here when you're ready to tackle these issues.
He was like, I'm going to have to take action or I won't survive this.
I've lost a brother and that was hard enough.
I can't imagine losing a child.
Especially when they just needed to walk a hundred feet that way and they'd be alive.
But the camp leadership told them to stay in place.
And there's still one camper missing.
And her name is Seal Steward.
she's from austin and um they haven't found her um they are still looking for seal the the search is very active and ongoing um there were some navy seals early on who jumped in to help search and uh they were wearing these bracelets seals for seal
And the first responders were amazing.
People like that who just wanted to help showed up, started diving, recovering bodies.
Um, now the search is under the purview of Captain Miller, former Green Beret.