When the President John F. Kennedy used the word “forebears” referring that they and he had made the same oath, he refers to the ones that were before him giving the same word, his ancestors, the ones that were in the same position that he, the founders of the nation.
That is the modifier because after that phrase it talks about the luggage but the luggage isn't the one excited about the trip instead it is the narrator of the sentence
The only line which demonstrates a simile (a comparison using the words <em>like </em>or <em>as</em>) is B) It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake.<em />