Do you ever sit around and think about how Captain America: The First Avenger is aptly named not because Steve Rogers was the world’s first superhero (and future leader of the Avengers Initiative team) but because one of his most memorable acts of bravery – crashing the plane to save the world – was done in the process of avenging Bucky Barnes.
You ever think about how relieved Bucky must have been at first when the Russians found him after he fell in the end of catfa? Imagine how grateful he must have felt to have miraculously survived his fall and been found by allies who would take him home. Do you think that as they were dragging him through the snow while he was half conscious, he was focusing on the thought that soon he and Steve would be reunited, that they had more time after all?