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About Camp Gold Star—Waterfront Resort&Marina Honoring America's Heroes <br /> i y.L* <br /> f <br /> Captain Frank and Melinda Morgan, co-founders of Camp Gold Star <br /> In February of 2024, Captain Morgan (maritime Captain) and his wife Melinda (20-year ARMY <br /> veteran) purchased a 10-acre waterfront parcel to build Camp Gold Star (CGS) which is dedicated <br /> to honoring our nation's bravest heroes. <br /> Captain Morgan has been navigating the Delta waterways since he was 15-years old and worked <br /> as a waterski instructor for Living Water Ministries, a Christian water camp operating out of the <br /> Meadows in Walnut Grove, CA. <br /> After making annual Houseboat trips back to the Delta over the years, Captain Morgan found <br /> himself retired, living in Discovery Bay CA, and running a cruise business with Melinda, called <br /> Captain Morgans Delta Adventures. <br /> It was on some of the 185-cruises per year which Captain Morgan and Melinda hosted, the <br /> Captain realized cruises with Gold Star families onboard were the most heartfelt and rewarding. <br /> After selling the cruise business in 2019, the Captain spent many hours on the couch in front of <br /> the TV wondering if this is what the rest of his life would amount to. <br /> Then just like a divine message, the spark that ignited the idea and ambition to buy waterfront <br /> property and build Camp Gold Star, came from a TV commercial. <br /> Captain Morgan had never heard about the Tunnel to Towers Foundation before, but watching <br /> Frank Siller make a pitch for viewers to donate just $11.00 per month to help families of first <br /> responders and veterans who lost their hero and left behind a spouse and young children to pick <br /> up the pieces, was tugging at the Captain's heart. <br /> Mr. Siller told the story of how his own brother, Steven Siller (New York firefighter) died trying to <br /> help others evacuate one of the Twin Towers in New York on September 11th, 2001. Mr. Siller <br /> ended the commercial with the words, "While we still have time, let's do good together" <br /> https://www,campgoldstar.com/about.htm1 <br /> 214 <br />