Editorial
So Nigh Is Grandeur: Volunteerism and Disaster Preparedness and Response
Abstract
So nigh is grandeur to our dust
So near to God is man;
When duty whispers low, “thou must.”
The youth replies, “I can.”
—Voluntaries, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)1
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