That’s Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscott. Of West Point.
Sully was after her divorce. The only guy Margaret slept with while married (other than Donald, one assumes, although he was in that body cast for the honeymoon) was Hawkeye.
In the “CeaseFire” episode, (Season One, Episode twenty-three), Hawkeye claims he is married to avoid relationship promises he made to three single nurses.
Okay, my head just slightly blew up. I actually read a bunch of those books before I watched the TV series; and I only watched the series casually. So all along I’ve assumed Hawkeye was married, which made one episode I recall (he and Hot Lips are under fire somewhere and get it on, I think?) particularly dramatic for me.
Well what the heck.
Thank you, thank you.
I’ve been waiting seven years for that explanation.
mmm
Which means it’s leaking braaaaiiiinssss…
You can finally stop checking this thread every day.
Hawkeye also fell in love with a Korean woman, educated in Paris, who was responsible for the care of what remained of her village. She eventually had to evacuate with her people to the South, and so she and Hawkeye bid adieu.
It was a very bittersweet episode.
~VOW
(whups! already mentioned!)
Yep, quite some time ago. Geesh, aren’t you caught up yet?
There were actually two actors who played Penobscott. Penobscott was supposed to be from a wealthy northern family, yet the second actor sounded very southern, like Elvis.
The nurse had just received a “Dear Jane” letter from her stateside husband. She regarded the event as helping a lonely friend through a bad night, and not as an invitation to an affair.
There are two distinct sets of books. The first set is really by Hooker, and after the war Hawkeye and the whole crew go to Maine (where Democrat is a curse) and open up a combined clinic/bait shop. The second set, written by someone other than Hooker though his name is on them, has the TV series cast in various exotic locales.
I don’t recall Hawkeye being married in the subsequent real books, but I don’t doubt he is married in the first one. As for why he isn’t married in the series, it makes sense to not have all your leading characters identical in this respect - married and cheating. Trapper was plenty good enough for that role.