MARY HARWELL SAYLER
- Discharging Toggle Annie: Mediterranean Theatre, 25 March 1945
- Irregular Heartbeat: On Becoming U.S. Property
- Legend of the Villain
- Refrain of the B-24
- Stand-Down: After V-E Day
- Winning the Wars
A freelance writer since 1972 and poetry instructor since 1983, Mary Harwell Sayler has had over 1,000 articles, many dozens of poems, and 20 books see print. Each year she judges the poetry entries and also manuscripts for children entered in the national writing competitions sponsored by the FL Freelance Writers Association - www.writers-editors.com
Her poems appearing here were drawn from the experiences of her father, Sgt. Horace E. Harwell, a nose-gunner for the 484th Bomb Group, 826th Squadron, 49th Wing, 15th Air Force, stationed in the Mediterranean Theatre, Torretta Field, Italy, 1945.
For more information about her work or her helps for poets, visit her website
Catholic Poets and Writers
Mary's father's bomb group.
"He's the handsome soldier on the right end of the first row.
I think the pilot, Vernon Halliday, is the officer standing on the left end."