"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

How has President Lincoln signaled the end of his speech in this passage?

a. he discusses the wounds and battles of the war
b. he explains the impact on widows and orphans
c. he discusses the firmness of right
d. he explains the need for healing the nation