Among the dead were the two Mead brothers from Turnagain, whose bodies were never found. A story surfaced that the older boy, Perry Jr., had died running back into the house to rescue his baby brother. But on the fiftieth anniversary of the earthquake, in 2014, the boys’ sister would explain to a reporter in Anchorage that the media must have invented that detail, to make the tragedy more palatable. The truth was, she had watched the earth swallow her brother Perry with her own eyes. Seconds later, determined to protect her two younger brothers, she’d lifted the first to safety on the roof of
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