"It feels very good, and I'm very happy," General Clark said.
Having absorbed the lessons of Barbara Tuchman's work on the origins of World War I, "The Guns of August," he was acutely aware of the dangers of a small incident and rebuffed trigger-happy generals.
Kennedy called the trigger-happy generals "mad" and spoke angrily to aides of "scattering the CIA to the wind".
Would Perry have shown the same tough-minded coolness as JFK in getting the crisis resolved but who also didn't buckle to demands by trigger-happy generals to launch a nuclear attack?
Siegfried Sassoon's 'Suicide In The Trenches' is not about the ludicrous manoeuvers of a trigger-happy General, but rather the desolation of lost youth.
The CarerQoL-VAS, from 0 (completely unhappy) to 10 (completely happy), measured general well-being in terms of happiness.
"She was just happy in general," her cousin Libby Phelps, one of Megan's close friends, told me.
That afternoon the Morris-Jumel Mansion, Manhattan's oldest house (1765), will present "Happy Birthday, General Washington," a tribute to the mansion's most illustrious guest.
"Happy Birthday, General Washington," Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, 65 Jumel Terrace, between West 160th and 162nd Streets, Washington Heights, (212) 92128008.
When people are able to express their creativity, when they have meaning and purpose in life, when they have meaningful relationships and are able to make other people happy, in general they are happy then.
Communist China, which has its share of trigger-happy nationalist generals, might not be an immediate threat to the United States, but in the long term it will become one.
