According to quindlen what familiar object serves as an ideal representation of america?

According to Anna Quindlen, the familiar object that serves as an ideal representation of America is a quilt.

Explanation:

Anna Quindlen makes a statement in 'A Quilt of a Country' which was written after the attacks on September 11, 2001 where she uses a very strong metaphor about a quilt to describe how the United States of America is a country that is unified through the presence of different cultures in each part of it working as a whole.

the question concerns exactly this part of the speech:

i am not now thinking of the loss of property involved, immense and serious as that is, but only of the wanton and wholesale destruction of the lives of non-combatants, men, women, and children, engaged in pursuits which have always, even in the darkest periods of modern history, been deemed innocent and legitimate. property can be paid for; the lives of the peaceful and innocent people cannot be.

president wilson talks about the lives of people destroyed by german army. but these people are not americans, they are the local people living in europe. the president mentions the barbarity of germans, considering that he is not targeting the nation, instead it is said about german army. the correct answer is the last one.