Question

@lace.vern

Answer 1

Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.

What does Kennedy mean when he uses the phrase "a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle"?

To answer a call from nations far away

To bear your burdens without complaining

To look deeply into the twilight

To take on a heavy responsibility

Answer 2

@alex-linne

Answer 3

I'm thinking D. to take on a heavy responsibility.

Answer 4

D,absolutely."A call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle"...The trumpets are calling to take on the heavy responsibility,or burden of this struggle.Burden=heavy responsibility.