[There's a touch of amusement in his voice, a wry curl to his lips as that smile slips back onto his face, because Bucky's right, of course. Between his asthma and everything else that was wrong with him, he'd been stamped 4-F so many times it made his head spin.]
Stubbornness, basically.
[And, because that's an easier topic than anything else, he tells him the story:]
I went every single morning, there as soon as the line opened, trying to talk the doctors into not stamping me 4-F. I was working as a bus boy at a diner, and some military brass came in, and they recognized me. Apparently I set a record for most times being rejected.
While I was getting his coffee a guy walked on his bill and stole the waitresses' purse from behind the counter. I didn't catch him, but I got her purse back.
[And his face punched in, but he lets that part go unsaid.]
General Phillips told me he expected to see me in the line tomorrow. Stamped me 1-A.
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Stubbornness, basically.
[And, because that's an easier topic than anything else, he tells him the story:]
I went every single morning, there as soon as the line opened, trying to talk the doctors into not stamping me 4-F. I was working as a bus boy at a diner, and some military brass came in, and they recognized me. Apparently I set a record for most times being rejected.
While I was getting his coffee a guy walked on his bill and stole the waitresses' purse from behind the counter. I didn't catch him, but I got her purse back.
[And his face punched in, but he lets that part go unsaid.]
General Phillips told me he expected to see me in the line tomorrow. Stamped me 1-A.