[ He's clearly touched a nerve, but he doesn't understand what about. Bucky had grown up in a time and at a moment where everyone was expected to be part of something— a country, the service, the homefront— and it wasn't your fault or your doing, but everyone did their part anyway. It was never something he'd questioned, or been inclined to question.
no subject
So, he thinks about it, and decides: ]
Buddy is better than kid.