[Bucky has been quiet, and brooding, and dealing with some shitty stuff since coming back from the Overlook, and hasn't really been in the mood to talk to most people, but when he clicks on the audio function and starts talking, he sounds more or less normal, at least at the beginning.]

So I know most people probably don't care and there're probably gonna be some of you who'll point out that's just some Earth thing that happened a million years ago and no one cares, but four years ago - for me, anyway - was the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

[He's quiet for a really long moment, almost to the point of where someone might wonder if he forgot to shut off the comm, but he picks up again, and now sounds a lot more pensive than most other people have probably heard him get before. Again, he's had a lot to think about.] It's just weird to think about, because everything before that happening seems really far away, almost like it happened to somebody else. And it's kinda hard to explain, to someone who didn't have to go through it exactly what that's like, because everything you worried about before that seems so dumb in comparison. And yeah, maybe it's just boring history to most of you, or it doesn't matter because you're not from Earth or whatever, but millions of people died, by the time the war was all over. It's easy enough to ignore it when it's not affecting you, but no one's the same after they get that kinda stuff dumped in their laps. It's not just something you read about in history books.

[And again he pauses, but this time he just shuts the damn thing off, because he doesn't really do introspection often, and certainly not to a public audience, so frankly he's kind of embarrassed he got this far before cutting himself off.]

[Private to the Admiral]

( Presents for Steve, Natasha, Ben, Peggy, Tony, Rhade, and Jefferson )