ever marching as to war

"My best friend's Irish-American," Bucky replies, rolling his eyes a little at the show. "Never saw anything wrong with that, so damn what anyone else might say."

Given his own life, however, Bucky lacks most of the prejudices of his era; the extent of politically correct language eludes him at times, but his mistakes come from a lack of knowledge instead of any malice, and it's the one area where he's always quick to offer an apology and correct himself. Growing up around a man like Steve, anything less wouldn't have been tolerated.