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.