Heroes as volunteers

They sometimes might appear less than organized. There even were pleas once for them to refrain from entering disaster zones on their own so that professional relief workers had their way.

But we cannot afford to imagine what things would have been like were it not for the compassionate involvement of the now-omnipresent volunteers.

When the majority of us want to help but are unable to make it to the forefront of post-quake relief, they are doing everything we have and have not anticipated.