Grandma passed away in the summer of 1982, in Mesa, AZ. I was beginning my sophomore year in high school. She was sixty years old. Born in 1921, in the mining town of Miami, and grew up in the small town of Safford, AZ. Wait! I’m getting ahead of myself here, I need to back up to 1921 in Miami …

My grandfather, Ralph Veldon Naylor, wasn’t an actual spy that I’m aware of during WWII, but he was involved in counter intelligence. He spent time during the war behind enemy lines disguised at time as a German Soldier and probably as a Russia Soldier, if that makes him a spy then I guess he was. The story I tell comes …