CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A man working on a documentary called “Bring Them Home” focused around tracking down West Virginia MIA Vietnam War Veterans and their families says he’s making some headway with the project.

Calvin Grimm came on 580 Live recently to discuss the progress being made with the film project and the attempt to locate the 17 missing in action Vietnam vets from West Virginia.

He said he was happy to finally locate Sergeant Jimmy Taylor and his family in Indiana and will be going out there this week to get an in-person interview with them.

Sergeant Taylor, who is from Nitro, went missing in Vietnam in 1966. He’s now 83.

Grimm said up until just the other day, the effort to find Taylor’s whereabouts seemed to be going nowhere.

“We were just kind of hitting dead ends left and right, we knew that he had five brothers, but there’s only one left now, and that’s why we were having such trouble tracking them down,” Grimm said.

Finally, however, he said he received a call from one of Taylor’s relatives who is still living in the Nitro area and they got him in touch with Taylor and his family in Indiana, who relocated there between 20 to 30 years ago.

Grimm said he had to talk to Taylor’s wife for the majority of the conversation over-the-phone, as Taylor has been battling health issues.

He said his wife shared how Taylor’s mother took the news that Taylor went missing and it was tragic.

“She put it that she died of sadness,” Grimm said. “Jimmy Taylor went missing in 1966, she passed away by the next summer of 67, and she was in relatively good health, it just screwed her up that bad.”

He said most of Taylor’s brothers were in the military as well, and one of them happened to be home on leave when the family got the notification that he was MIA.

Grimm said Taylor deserves the ultimate badge of honor for everything he’s been through during the war.

“There were two other veterans at that battle where he went missing who earned the Medal of Honor,” he said. “I think Taylor should have gotten the Medal of Honor from what I can tell.”

Grimm said one of the Green Berets with Taylor at the time, who later received the Medal of Honor, Bennie Adkins wrote a book called The Tiger Among Us where he describes the events surrounding Taylor’s MIA.

While he said Adkins unfortunately passed away a few years ago, Grimm is currently working on trying to contact some of the few surviving Green Beret members for an interview who were there at the time as well.

Earlier, Grimm said he got to interview the niece of Airman First Class Marshall Pauley who went missing in Laos also in 1966.

Grimm said ten years ago, Pauley’s aircraft wreckage was located and recently, his dog tags were found. However, he said they have not yet found his remains, so he is unfortunately still left unaccounted for.

He said they are also in the process of trying to track down a couple other veteran’s families who were from the central West Virginia region as well.

One is Lietenant John Albright of Huntington who went missing in 1968. Grimm said his aircraft also went down in Laos.

He said Sergenat James Duncan is another whose family they are still working on trying to locate.

“He was Army, he was Infantry, they were reinforcing a South Vietnamese unit,” Grimm said. “From all accounts, he was killed in action and they buried his body at the battle site, but they were never able to recover it for whatever reason.”

Grimm said people can find updates regarding the documentary on its Facebook Page, “Bring Them Home: The Stories of Our Missing in Action Vietnam Veterans.” He said they will have a website up for the film project very soon.

One of the best individual seasons a player has ever had at West Virginia took place this season as Javon Small kept the Mountaineers in position to make the NCAA Tournament despite a shorthanded roster. Unfortunately, they were snubbed from the dance, but what Small was able to do in just his one year in Morgantown is something WVU fans will remember forever.

In 32 games this season, Small averaged 18.6 points, 5.6 assists, 4.1 rebounds, and 1.5 steals per game while shooting 41% from the field and 35% from three-point land. Opposing teams had their full attention on him every single night, yet weren’t able to keep him in check.

Sunday afternoon, he announced on Instagram that he would be declaring for the 2025 NBA Draft.

“First off, I want to thank God for everything he has done in my life and for his continual blessings. I would also like to thank my gamily for being with me every step of the way. Your support, guidance, and love have meant the world to me, and you’ve always pushed me to be my best. To my friends, teammates, coaches, and everyone else who has been part of my journey, I appreciate you more than you know and none of this would be possible without y’all. I was blessed to have the opportunity to play at Eastern Carolina University, Oklahoma State, and West Virginia and that’s something I’ll cherish forever. We all have dreams and I am ready to pursue mine. Therefore, I will be declaring for the 2025 NBA Draft.”

Small did not have any eligibility remaining, so really his message is to announce that he’ll be submitting his paperwork for the draft.

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Provo, UT – In a wild afternoon at Miller Park, the West Virginia Mountaineers (22-4, 4-3) popped out to a seven-run lead but had to rally from an eight-run deficit to take the series deciding game three from the BYU Cougars (14-11, 4-5) Saturday afternoon 19-16.

West Virginia senior Jace Rinehart was 3-6 at the plate with a home run and six RBI and sophomore Armani Guzman was 2-5 with a home run and four RBI.

West Virginia jumped out to an early 7-0 lead.

Senior Grant Hussey hit a one-out double and redshirt junior Chase Swain followed with a single to and sophomore Armani Guzman put the Mountaineers on the board with three-run home run in the top of the second inning.

In the third, Logan Suave blasted a leadoff home run. Senior Kyle West dropped a double in left-centerfield. Then, freshman Gavin Kelley and Hussey hit consecutive RBI doubles before Guzman came back around with a line drive RBI single to right field for the seven-run advantage.

BYU responded with a five run third inning, starting with an RBI triple from redshirt sophomore Keoni Painer. A slow roller to short by junior Luke Anderson was good for an RBI single. Then, with two outs on the board, junior Bryker Hurdsman and senior Brock Watkins delivered RBI doubles and sophomore Ryder Robinson singled to right field for an RBI to cut the WVU lead to two, 7-5.

After West Virginia starting pitcher Carson Estridge allowed the five-run third, head coach Steve Sabins opted to send him back out in the fourth and the junior walked the first two Cougar hitters before he exited the game as two Mountaineer relievers would come into the game and BYU posted a ten-run fourth inning on just four hits. In total, the WVU arms gave up three walks, two hit batsmen, and three hits.

The Cougars took advantage of the Mountaineers’ mistakes. Anderson recorded a two-RBI double and an RBI single, Hurdsman registered an RBI single, and junior Easton Jones hit a two-RBI single up the middle to take a 15-7 lead.

West Virginia answered with a six-run fifth inning. Hussey smacked his third double of the afternoon, then with two on and one-out, Spencer Barnett lined a single back up the middle to score the first run. Sauve worked a walk with the bases loaded before West slapped drove a double to right-centerfield and Jace Rinehart followed line a two-RBI single to left to cut the deficit to two, 15-13.

The Mountaineers reclaimed the lead in the seventh when senior Jace Rinehart delivered an opposite field three-run home run for the 16-15 advantage.

West Virginia added three insurance runs in the eight. Swain led the inning with a single, Barnett line a one-out RBI single to centerfield, and with two outs on the board West and Rinehart produce RBI singles for the 19-15 lead.

West Virginia freshman Mac Stiffler took the mound in the fifth and cooled the BYU bats, holding the Cougars to one hit in two innings.

Then, senior Jack Kartsonas entered in the seventh and faced the minimum with two strikeouts but found himself in a bit of trouble in the eighth after giving up a hit and a walk. However, the senior hunkered down with a strikeout and got Anderson to hit into an inning double play on the 0-2 pitch.

Kartsonas left two on and an out on the board before sophomore reliever Chase Meyer shut down any opportunity for the Cougars as the Mountaineers held on for the 19-6 decision.

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