Read the passage. after the trumpet was sounded and the flag folded, a member of the honor guard knelt in front of my frail, aging mother, looked her directly in the eye and in a soft voice, her — and my father—for his service. which detail is most in revealing the writer's desire for her reader to sympathize with her mother? question 2 options: her mother is frail and aging. her father was a veteran. the serviceman is her mother. this happened after a funeral.