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I'm pretty sure it's<em> </em>attitude. For example, in a satire, you feel irony. In an antiwar poem, you may feel protest or moral indignation. Tone can be playful, humorous, regretful, anything. I Hope this answers' it! :)
By describing actions such as "seemed to look each of us in the eye"
He wants people to support him. He sought to emphasize the historic nature of the events at Pearl Harbor, implicitly urging the American people never to forget the attack and memorialize its date.