About another shorty's life surrounded by maroons? [ Bucky sighs because it's such a useless time in his life to talk about. He was going nowhere, doing nothing worthwhile, and no one saw the talent he had inside him. ] It's not like I was bad at school or anything. I just... I got it, you know? I didn't need to be taught, just gimme the book and lemme take a test. So I got in trouble a lot for "acting up" in class. And I got into fights...

[ Because, hey, he was good at that too. ]

My father was an instructor, so I lived on base. Didn't have a lot of friends my age there, you know.