Read the excerpt from a speech by eleanor roosevelt after the japanese attacked pearl harbor. which sentence best illustrates a reassuring and understanding tone?

a: is it i should like to say just a word to the women in the country tonight. i have a boy at sea on a destroyer, for all i know he may be on his way to the pacific.

b: many of you all over the country have boys in the services who will now be called upon to go into action.

c: you cannot escape anxiety

or d: you cannot escape a clutch of fear at your heart and yet i hope that the certainty of what we have to meet will make you rise above these fears.