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| A lie about what Tour of Duty says about Kerry's bandages for a wound | ||||||||||||||
| p. 93 | ||||||||||||||
| On page 93 of Unfit for Command O'Neill misquotes what his fiance Julia Thorne is quoted on page 329 of Tour of Duty as saying, and puts the words into Kerry's mouth, with theses words: | ||||||||||||||
| According to his biography, when he got off the airplane at Kennedy Airport in New York to meet his fiancee, Julia Thorne, Kerry was supposedly so "bandaged" that "some of it was sticking out."17 Whether this was just another example of Kerry political theater is not clear. It is certain that Kerry had only a minor bruise on his arm an a minor self-inflicted wound on the buttocks from some two weeks earlier. It is unclear how either of these wounds could have accounted for bandages "sticking out" from his clothing. | ||||||||||||||
| O'Neill obviously wants readers to believe that Kerry is quoted in Tour of Duty as saying that he was "so bandaged that some of it was sticking out". But O'Neill's note 17 in the back of the book refers to page 329 of Tour of Duty, and on that page it says, | ||||||||||||||
| When John Kerry finally landed at Kennedy Airport in New York he was greeted by an ecstatic Julia Thorne. "I went to pick him up," she recalled. "It was a packed airport, [but] in those days you could go to the gate. People were pouring off the plane in Hawaiian shirts and leis, some seemed drunk on mai tais. Then, emerging from the crowd in his dress blues and his white hat, came John Kerry. He was bandaged, some of it was sticking out, and nobody was paying attention to him will I was sitting there going, 'Everbody stop and look at this man.' Part the seas and say, 'This is your veteran coming home from serving his country.' But nobody cared. Nobody gave a goddam. Nobody gave a damn at all. Nobody." | ||||||||||||||
| Obviously, it is Julia Thorne, not Kerry, that was quoted, and she didn't say "so bandaged", merely "bandaged". | ||||||||||||||