People, Patience & Priorities

In the midst of a crisis situation, people need to practice having patience. Simply said. We just finished reading the local story about the standoff situation here in Wilson and boy are we glad it ended the way it did. But it didn't have to.

Surely at the moment this situation turned from routine to extreme, the mindset of all the local law enforcement agencies was safety first. For everybody, including themselves, the immediate surrounding area and Eric Radke. That's how they're trained. The order to serve and protect kicks into another gear when lives are threathened and there is the potential of the loss of multiple lives.


For all of the effort of the law enforcement agencies and especially the Wilson County Sheriff's Department, the men and women who worked diligently to secure the situation along with other special ops who assisted, WE, THE PEOPLE, the citizens of Wilson, NC extend a "HUMONGOUS THANK YOU & CONGRATULATIONS!

We understand this situation inconvenienced the other residents in that area. We understand there were some folks angered by the entire episode. We understand for a moment in time it wasn't about you, and what you wanted and for some folks that's a hard pill to swallow when everything revolves around you.

On our facebook page, we received a comment from someone, a neighbor, who was inconvenienced during the incident. We heard the frustration and the aggravation come through. And yes, we sympathize and wished it didn't have to be. However, the matter of the fact is "stuff happens."

We live in a world that's just not perfect and neither are the people. And in times of community crisis's the community must learn to "practice patience"...even when it's a direct and inconsiderate act on someone else's part and inconvenience to us individually.

We don't mean for this to become a rant, rather dialogue for future reference. We noticed the same lady who left the message on our FB page gave an interview later that day with a local newspaper reporter expressing her sentiments about all that happened. No need to name names. She knows who she is. And our FBF know who she is too. We're glad she was able to vent and get that anger out of her system. Now, perhaps she can move on from that moment and recapture what she feels she lost in those hours during the standoff.

And so, now that it's over, we hope you never have to witness or be an innocent bystander in such an ordeal ever again. We sincerely hope you'll recover from this traumatic crisis, whole and sound. Sincerely, we do. BUT, IUST IN CASE, it ever happens again, learn a lesson from this event, please.

PEOPLE MUST PRACTICE PATIENCE when the top PRIORITY is saving lives. A moment of inconveniece in your life could have been a matter of life or death in someone else's. Patience must have her "perfect turn."

Be at Peace.