Winter Solider - origin of the name?

[schmevil]

Has Ed Brubaker said what the inspiration was for Bucky's renaming as the Winter Soldier? There are two possibilities that I see:

THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Thomas Paine, Crisis 1.

Or the Winter Soldier Investigation into American war crimes in Vietnam, which got its name from a paraphrase of Paine. Btw, the documentary of the investigation is available here.

Has Bru talked about this? Is it explained in the books (which I haven't read straight through)?

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[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

The Daredevil run, or the CA run? For DD, you actually need to start with the beginning of Bendis's run on the title -- Brubaker continued the plotline Bendis started for a significant section of his run (he actually did an awesome job wrapping it up, even if it is kind of obvious that he stole some things from Watchmen at one point).

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

The Cap run, since I've already got large parts of it. I've started reading DD mid-run. I'm not sure if I'm going to try to catch up. There's so much recommended reading when it comes to DD.