damelzacarne:

[The noise in prison is insane. Echoed screaming… clinging bars… fights… threats yelled between cells… it’s not like a military brig. At least not the ones I’ve been in. But… in a military prison, you’re still in the military. Most here have no hope of earning their way back to the life they had. At night I like awake and wonder if I’ve joined them in that fate. And I start weighing which I want more… my freedom… or the life I left outside these walls? I never asked – never wanted – to be Captain America… but that mask, those stars and stripes, that shield… they change you. I can see now the burden that Steve’s always carried. And it feels strange to admit that I want that burden back. But underneath it all, what I really know is… I want to deserve it… somehow.]
// CAPTAIN AMERICA (2004) #612