A Timeline of Major Events in Baghdad Waltz
March 10, 1979 - James Barnes is born at Fort Hood, Texas
July 1979 - Winnie and George get married
July 4, 1980 - Steven Rogers is born in Brooklyn, New York
August 1981 - Joe Rogers goes to his construction job and does not return home
1982 - Winnie, George, and Jamie move to Enterprise, Alabama after George and Winnie are re-assigned to Fort Rucker
March 22, 1983 - Rikki Barnes is born in Enterprise; Winnie resigns her commission shortly after
March 10, 1984 - Jamie gets Casey for his birthday
January 1985 - Winnie throws Casey in the garbage
1985 - The Barnes family moves to Fort Bragg, North Carolina
1989 - The Barnes family moves to Hopkinsville, Kentucky when George is stationed at Fort Campbell
1990 - Sarah Rogers is diagnosed with and treated for ovarian cancer
August 1, 1991 - No Use Crying Spent Brass
December 2, 1991 - Jamie is beaten and hospitalized for several days
February 6, 1992 - George Barnes is severely injured when his helicopter crashes during a training accident in southeastern Missouri. The cause of the accident is determined to be a mechanical failure. George suffers catastrophic internal injuries and is placed on life support.
February 8, 1992 - George Barnes it taken off life support
Spring 1992 - Winnie moves the family to Brooklyn
September 1992 - Jamie and Steve meet in 8th grade English Language Arts class. Jamie informs his new classmates that all his friends in Kentucky used to call him Bucky.
1994 - Sarah is diagnosed with breast cancer. She has a partial mastectomy.
1995 - Metastases are found on Sarah’s liver. She undergoes chemotherapy. She goes into remission later that year.
April 1996 - With Winnie’s permission, Bucky enters the Army’s Delayed Entry Program, which places him on track to enlist in the National Guard as an infantryman
September 1997 - Bucky starts at Hunter College to pursue a bachelor’s degree in biology
August 1998 - Steve gets a job at Strand
March 1999 - Steve and Bucky go out for Bucky’s 20th birthday. Steve gets drunk and propositions him. Bucky refuses him. The next day, Steve kisses him on the cheek and asks him out on a real date.
June 24, 2000 - A Close Second Spent Brass
Summer 2001 - Sarah Rogers has a recurrence of breast cancer. She tells Steve it’s stage I.
September 11, 2001 - Bucky goes to Ground Zero
September 13, 2001 - Bucky returns home from Ground Zero
September 17, 2001 - Bucky meets with a recruiter and requests that his National Guard status be converted to Active Duty
November 2001 - Bucky’s Active Duty packet is approved and he is sent to the 101st Airborne Division, 187th Infantry Regiment out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky
January 2002 - Bucky’s unit deploys to Afghanistan
March 1, 2002 - Operation Anaconda begins
March 6, 2002 - Sarah Rogers dies from brain metastases
March 8, 2002 - Beautiful Boy Spent Brass
March 10, 2002 - Operation Anaconda ends
March 12, 2002 - Steve breaks up with Bucky
July 2002 - Steve begins his “Plebe” (freshman) year at the United States Military Academy at West Point
March 2003 - Bucky’s unit leads the 101st Airborne Division in the invasion of Iraq
2004 - After returning from Iraq, Bucky goes to Ranger School and is assigned to the 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Benning, GA
2004 - 2006 - Bucky deploys multiple times to Iraq and Afghanistan with the Ranger Regiment
May 2006 - Steve graduates from West Point, is branched Infantry, and is assigned to the Pentagon to serve as an aide de camp for General Chester Phillips
Fall 2006 - Steve and Sharon meet and start dating
2007 - Bucky requests a transfer out of the 75th Ranger Regiment and returns to the regular infantry. He is assigned to the 82nd Airborne, 107th Infantry Battalion out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
January 9, 2008 - Second platoon leader, 1LT Shen, has a seizure and is rendered non-deployable. Bucky coordinates to request a replacement.
January 30, 2008 - Steve gets an offer to join the 107th on their deployment to Iraq; he accepts
February 13, 2008 - The 107th deploys to Baghdad
June 24, 2008 - Antoine Triplett is killed while on patrol
October 4, 2008 - Bucky and Steve are injured by an IED while on a mission in Khalidiya, Iraq
November 2008 - The 107th returns home from Iraq
December 10, 2008 - Bucky and Steve are reunited after Bucky’s hospital stay at Walter Reed
January 2009 - Bucky is discharged from the Army and moves back to New York
March 2009 - Bucky is charged with assault and a DUI
April 24, 2009 - Ethan Carter-Rogers is born in Washington, DC
April 30, 2009 - Bucky overdoses on alcohol and is hospitalized
May, 2009 - Bucky goes to jail for DUI/assault. The case is adjudicated in an early version of veterans' court, and he is sent to residential programs for substance abuse and PTSD.
September 2009 - Steve is discharged from the Army under "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" and moves back to Brooklyn
October 2009 - Steve and Bucky are reunited and move in together in Windsor Terrace. Steve begins working at Human Rights Watch.
February 12, 2010 - Steve moves out of their Windsor Terrace apartment
June 2010 - Peter Quill moves in with Bucky
August 2010 - Bucky gets a job at the Brooklyn Vet Center
November 20, 2010 - Rikki and Daisy’s wedding day