[ One side of his mouth quirks upward, chin ducking down as he tips his head to one side. If it wasn't already obvious to Steve by now why they get along so well - ]
So you stand your ground.
[ On a much bigger scale than chumps getting disrespectful at the pictures. There's a lot to admire in a guy like Sam.
When the topic changes to Bucky and services, Steve nods. ] My father served - guess you already knew that.
[ It was his mother that dealt with the VA when she was alive. Steve's known plenty of vets from the Great War, but support of any kind wasn't something folks liked talking about unless they'd had one too many drinks in them. ]
Chasing after Bucky and superheroing must've become a full time job.
[ Sam doesn't have to ask to figure that Steve knows a little something about standing your ground - hell, even if he didn't know already, he'd guess just based on that response. He shoots him a smile, tilting his head in understanding. ]
If you don't, who else will?
[ Maybe a lot of people, really, but Sam's never been the kind of guy to sit back and do nothing. There's always been something to fight for, one way or another, whether the battlefield was the streets in Harlem or the skies in Afghanistan or his own mind and the minds other veterans - or the whole damn world, after joining the Avengers. Sometimes he thinks it should make him exhausted, and some days it does, but mostly he's made peace with that. ]
Don't know much about it, but yeah, I remember that. Things are different back where I'm from, but not as much as they should be. [ He lets out an exhale, quirking a slightly wry smile. ] I kept up working at the VA for a while, just chasing leads on Barnes, but eventually, yeah. I still go to groups, do guest speaking some times. Or I did, anyway.
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So you stand your ground.
[ On a much bigger scale than chumps getting disrespectful at the pictures. There's a lot to admire in a guy like Sam.
When the topic changes to Bucky and services, Steve nods. ] My father served - guess you already knew that.
[ It was his mother that dealt with the VA when she was alive. Steve's known plenty of vets from the Great War, but support of any kind wasn't something folks liked talking about unless they'd had one too many drinks in them. ]
Chasing after Bucky and superheroing must've become a full time job.
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If you don't, who else will?
[ Maybe a lot of people, really, but Sam's never been the kind of guy to sit back and do nothing. There's always been something to fight for, one way or another, whether the battlefield was the streets in Harlem or the skies in Afghanistan or his own mind and the minds other veterans - or the whole damn world, after joining the Avengers. Sometimes he thinks it should make him exhausted, and some days it does, but mostly he's made peace with that. ]
Don't know much about it, but yeah, I remember that. Things are different back where I'm from, but not as much as they should be. [ He lets out an exhale, quirking a slightly wry smile. ] I kept up working at the VA for a while, just chasing leads on Barnes, but eventually, yeah. I still go to groups, do guest speaking some times. Or I did, anyway.