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Mgnum married widow of NVA Officer?
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:24 pm
by Xenos
Quoting myself from "Memories Are Forever" in the S2 forum. Hoping someone can answer these questions. Dying to know.
Xenos wrote:Just watched this last night and have a few questions:
Do we know how Magnum, a Navy SEAL, was not at least investigated for marrying the widow of an NVA Officer? That seems a bit hazardous, no? Sort of "sleeping with the enemy"? Particularly as we are now of the consensus (which settles the issue for me) that Michelle was at least half Vietnamese? Were members of the US military allowed to marry women with close, familial ties to the North Vietnamese?
Sorry for the length, but this is my first post here. Great board.
Re: Mgnum married widow of NVA Officer?
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:03 am
by Doc Ibold
Xenos wrote:Quoting myself from "Memories Are Forever" in the S2 forum. Hoping someone can answer these questions. Dying to know.
Xenos wrote:Just watched this last night and have a few questions:
Do we know how Magnum, a Navy SEAL, was not at least investigated for marrying the widow of an NVA Officer? That seems a bit hazardous, no? Sort of "sleeping with the enemy"? Particularly as we are now of the consensus (which settles the issue for me) that Michelle was at least half Vietnamese? Were members of the US military allowed to marry women with close, familial ties to the North Vietnamese?
Sorry for the length, but this is my first post here. Great board.
As far as we know, Magnum wasn't investigated (but that may have been something that came up AFTER Memories Are Forever, but it was never addressed on the show.
And yes, Michelle is half-Vietnamese (or at least of Asian extraction)... see Higgins' quote from "little Girl Who"
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:37 am
by J.J. Walters
It's like all the paperwork in your standard police dramas. You never see it being done, but you can assume it happened.
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:43 pm
by MrMoustache
How quickly my mind is clouded with work and life!
Wasn't Michelle also a US agent?
And also how many service men during Vietnam and Korea married asian women? tons probably. Consider he was NIA it probably was an issue as well. As far as Magnum knew, he thought she died and they never showed the ceremony AFAIK. Granted they could have been waiting to be stateside to leagalize it.