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Morning Coffee

by W. R. Bonesteel

264 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-1322; ISBN 1-4120-3494-9; US$22.50, C$26.00, EUR18.50, £13.00

Ya wanta get 'er right? Well...stop by and have coffee with me inna mornin'! We'll get 'er sorted out.

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About the Book Morning Coffee is a place to sit back, relax, and get your head wrapped around the day. It's a time and a place that becomes comforting. It becomes a habit, a good habit, and a place to maybe think about things that you wouldn't normally have time to consider. It's a place and a time to look beyond your own situation and to thoughtfully ponder where you are at, where you are going, and maybe how to get there from here. Morning Coffee is a friendly place, a refuge from the rest of the world for at least a few minutes out of the day. It's a place out of our past...and a place to look towards the future. That timeless place between dusk and dawn, a place to consider ways of meeting that future without fear. Morning Coffee is home, a refuge and sanctuary, however fleeting and temporary, from the storms of life. It is a place to get your mind and soul refreshed for the day ahead. It is a place wherein you know that you aren't alone, and for a few minutes at least, you are a part of something beyond yourself. Morning Coffee is a place to refresh and a place of relative peace. Morning Coffee is community and acceptance. You're home here. Leave all that stress and discomfort and pain at the door for a bit, kick back, relax, have a good cup of coffee and visit for a bit. We'll get things sorted out. What People Are Saying about Morning Coffee: I love this stuff. Great job. I loved your context on changing the world. I often say my job here today is not to change the world but to change your minds and then let you change the world. Thanks again and stay in touch. I see you are in South Dakota. Greetings from Chicago. Kind of the same type of city but different (sounds like something you would say). -Al.

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About the Author Warren "Bones" Bonesteel is a 46-year-old, disabled veteran Marine and has two children and three grandchildren. He grew up and went to school near the Wabash River in Illinois. He has been an athlete, artist, biker, martial artist, free soloist, church usher, choir member, street evangelist, janitor, barkeeper, construction worker, landscape labourer, maintenance man, dishwasher, chef's assistant, kitchen manager, production supervisor, warehouse manager, business manager, website moderator, and co-owner of a small business. A self-described intellectual dilettante, many Veterans and others already know him for his writings. With a delightful mixture of wit and wisdom, he has helped to transform the lives of many with discourses in his native Midwestern vernacular on "Life, the Universe, and nothing at all." Divorced and remarried, he and his wife of seventeen years currently reside in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

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Excerpts

The History of Morning Coffee: 'Mornin' folks! How the hell are ya this mornin'? Get yerself some coffee and have a seat somewhere. Coffee's on! Paper'll be here directly, I imagine...if ya ain't already got it when I wasn't lookin'. I got first dibs onna funny pages!

On several websites awhile back, a Marine Veteran, name of Nomad was regularly a sharin' about the beautiful Shenandoah Valley and his wonderful Puppy Brigade. Well, he got orders to go guard The Gates of Heaven. As no one else seemed to want to try to pick up where he left off, I thought that I'd give 'er a go. Nomad influenced a whole buncha folks and impacted their lives fer the better. I just happen to be one of 'em. So...I started Mornin' Coffee in June of 2001 on leatherneck.com. Later on, I began to post Morning Coffee on The Patriot Files, a very good military history website where it has a small, but loyal, readership. In those two relatively small venues, well over two thousand posts were made in a year's time, with nearly twenty-five thousand 'views'. If I didn't put it up fer some reason, I had folks raisin' hell with me about not havin' coffee ready for 'em inna mornin'.

Some of the websites carryin' Morning Coffee currently include: the Marine Open Discussion Forum at military.com, Marine's Direct, Gunnys Web, pmimchat, MarineChat.com, ragereport, MSDSite Forums, and a daily column on The Federal Observer as a bit of light readin' for their weekly e-zine opinion site. It has also been a hit with Gunny Di's MarineMomsOnline groups. Most places, if it doesn't have its own forum, they got it 'stickied' to the top, so that kinda tells ya somethin'. Currently, a conservative estimate reveals that nearly two million people around the world read Morning Coffee on a daily basis. From Japan to the Philippines; Thailand...(not countin' a couple of Marines over there)...Canada, all over America, Great Britain, Belgium, France and Germany. These are some of the countries I know about where folks are visitin' over coffee with me inna mornin'. They might be more, but nobody done told me yet.

Demographics? Well, there's folks from great-greatgrandmas and grandpas to teenagers, dishwashers to CEOs, folks in the Beltway, PhD's, Moms and Dads, politicians, active duty military, and Veterans from before WWII to yesterday. There's folks from near every religious belief and political affiliation, and every level of society, a visitin' with us inna mornin'. Just all sorts of good folks. They most all got somethin' good to say about me and Mornin' Coffee fer some reason. Two years ago, they was only six or eight of us a visitin'! Morning Coffee just might be a place worth ya a checkin' on. And to the rest of you folks who haven't heard it before...Welcome Home. I'm glad to see ya...and yer welcome to stop by and visit over coffee any time. I sit here and if I turn around and open the door, I can see for forty-some miles, and the sun is comin' up. My lilies are fixin'to bloom and my lawn is green. Folks around here don't seem to know people like you and me are even around. But we were. We didn't serve for them so much as we just loved the job. But I'm glad these folks seem to remain so innocent. They won't have to see what we saw or do what we did. Ever. I watch the sun come up and light come in the windows, and for now, I am content. Good coffee. I'm gonna get another cup

Warm up yer coffee and set a spell! We got another chance to get 'er right! It's a new opportunity to get things sorted out! Make sure ya take advantage of it! Warren "Bones" Bonesteel Sgt USMC 1976-1983 24 May, 2004

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