About me: Steve Rogers born on July 4, 1917 in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, to Irish immigrants Sarah and Joseph Rogers. By the early 1940s, before America's entry into World War II, I was a tall but scrawny fine arts student specializing in illustration. Disturbed by the rise of the Third Reich, I attempt to enlist, only to be rejected due to his poor constitution. A U.S. Army officer looking for test subjects offers me the chance to serve my country by taking part in a top-secret defense project — Operation: Rebirth, which seeks to develop a means of creating physically superior soldiers. I volunteer for the research and, after a rigorous selection process, is chosen as the first human test subject for the Super-Soldier serum developed by the scientist "Dr. Josef Reinstein," later retroactively changed to a code name for the scientist Abraham Erskine.
The night Operation: Rebirth is implemented, I received injections and oral doses of the Super-Soldier formula. I then was exposed to a controlled burst of "Vita-Rays" that activate and stabilize the chemicals in his system. Although the process is arduous physically, it successfully alters his physiology almost instantly from its relatively frail form to the maximum of human efficiency, greatly enhancing his musculature and reflexes. Erskine declares me to be the first of a new breed of man, a "nearly perfect human being."
Who I'd like to meet: Any proud American as well as service men & women serving America.
