Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. And every place you and Karen went Officer Cook, you were charitable and appreciated the opportunity to help a disadvantaged person. I'm certain you were giving in other ways and this shall remain part of your legacy that we can look to in our future as the shining example of how to succeed with your life's ambitions. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 18, 2013

Some day, after you have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity we shall harness the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Officer Cook, you discovered something not found in some officers today: Honor and integrity sprinkled with a little dignity that can take an officer a long way in their career. Officers do have to deal with fires and perhaps in your career, you too had to deal with this issue, Officer Cook and with an arson which is a very costly crime, it can take a person's life along with it. We don't want for that to happen heaven forbid. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 18, 2013

If someone comes to you asking for help, do not say in refusal, 'trust in God, He will help." Rather, act as if there were no God and no one to help except you. God was looking down on you on May 16, 1979, Officer Cook, as you were upholding the oath you solemnly took when you became a police officer. Your faithfulness to duty and not an ounce of dereliction to perform is why you my neighbor, friend and hero are held to this very day in high accord and it's fitting that on the day when you laid your life down for your colleagues and citizens of Dade County we pause for a moment of silence to remember your bravery and courage not found in many people. Rest in peace and help others from heaven, help others here in this world.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 18, 2013

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt....It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics. I just wish Officer Cook, your department had purchased these side panels so necessary for an officer's survival. One inch and answering a domestic call that you had the needed expertise to deal with along with a young man whose life was off kilter. This math lesson is why today you are among God's True Blue Heroes and an angel to be sure whose solemn task is helping God keep law and order on the streets from above. Thank God you came to that scene and were so faithfully able to save your comrades lives and those of the two civilians that were present. Your colleague, Detective Don Blocker ended the life of that young man who unnecessarily ended your life and he too should be commended for standing toe to toe with evil that reared its ugliness that day. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You put aside the math and did your job without complaining and did it the right way: Honorably and with dignity and integrity personified!

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 18, 2013

A hundred times everyday I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving. All people from all walks of life must be supremely grateful to God when we arise each day and thank Him for allowing us the strength to pursue our passions. You and Karen did this everyday, Officer Cook and it made you both humble and in control of your emotions which were necessary parts of the equations in your tasks. A person of the Jewish faith should recite one hundred prayers each day and I'm sure you offered blessings before you left your home to begin your shift. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. It's brought down in different writings regarding one of the Jewish faith to offer at least one hundred prayers daily. We are supposed to offer these prayers three times a day, morning, afternoon and evenings and on the Jewish Holidays including the Jewish New Year called: Rosh Hashanah and on the Day of Atonement: it's called Yom KIppur a solemn day marked by fasting and abstinence from basic pleasures over a twenty-five hour period. The fasting part of the Day of Atonement is derived from the Old Testament-The Torah itself.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 18, 2013

Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. Your polite manners and professionalism are sorely missed, Officer Cook. Officers today, not all, but same need special instruction on the dos and don'ts. Perhaps they won't go wrong, but than to perform in a highly motivated manner as you did, may be hard to come by. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 17, 2013

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire-oh, no-love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living-yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest. Your love and bond with all folks from all walks of life, Officer Cook, will stay integrated in our beings as long as you my neighbor, friend and hero rest in peace and your beloved soul stays in action up above observing what we are accomplishing from time to time.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 17, 2013

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. Your strength in service to us, Officer Cook, is the same inner strength we need to carry on your fine legacy. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 17, 2013

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes and they come back to us as effects. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. The cause and effect of your very life will always stay glued to our very souls.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 17, 2013

If you bring forth what is inside of you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside of you, what you don't bring forth will destroy you. You brought your entire being to your position daily, Officer Cook and that is why you will always be endearing to all. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 17, 2013

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever i can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. it is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. Your did that Officer Cook. The flame within your pure soul will always shine bright and can never be extinguished. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You'll always be in the hearts of Dade County and its citizens forever, Officer Cook.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 17, 2013

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. How very true Officer Cook. Your twenty-five years were all filled with this basic instinct and it never lead you down the wrong path. You performed every act of your life as if it were your last. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Our True Blue Hero and the very best of God's solemn angels.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 17, 2013

Agape is understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill toward all men. Agape is an overflowing love which seeks nothing in return. Theologians would say that it is the love of God operating in the human heart. When you rise to love on this level, you love all men not because you like them, not because their ways appeal to you, but you love them because God loves them. And this was instilled in both you and Karen and your sister, Nancy, growing up, Officer Cook. It made you wiser and more informed than the average person. It redefined you as an officer who worked humbly with others to get the job done right and with meaning. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 17, 2013

The quality of mercy is not strained; it drops as the gentle rain from heaven; upon the place beneath; it is twice blessed; it blesses He that gives and He that takes. When the rain falls we can look to the heavens above and know that Officer Cook and his fellow blue angelic comrades are at work providing much needed assistance to their fellow officers here. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 17, 2013

Fear grows out of things we think; it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of things we are and lives in our hearts. It's only natural to have a certain amount of apprehension. This is logical even for a highly skilled police officer the caliber of yourself, Officer Cook. Judging by your smile as I look at your picture on The Officer Down Memorial page, I can tell you were not a pessimist, but rather someone who relished tackling problems head on. For your efforts, we will remember your shining legacy as something we can look at in the mirror daily to energize our motivations, if our inspirations start to wane a bit. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 17, 2013

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Every creature seeks its perfection in another. We are attempt to replicate what you so faithfully accomplished, Officer Cook. But how can we sustain this by doing so in honesty and in truth while maintaining dignity? The answer is to begin in trusting in God to guide your every direction. You can be sure He has your back. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 17, 2013

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. the Lord is faithful to all His promises and loving toward all He has made....You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing. Officer Cook, you and Karen experienced all the happiness that one could have in a beautiful marriage and it is a shame you can't still be with us today. You loved every living being with respect and honor, so it is fitting that we honor your contribution to Dade County, its citizens and to modern day society. You'll be loved and adored by your loved ones forever and treasured by your law enforcement peers as your legacy grows. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 17, 2013

Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced or cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance, my head is bloody but unbowed. beyond this place of wrath an tears, looms but the horror of the shade and yet the menace of the years finds and shall find, me unafraid. it matters now how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. Officer Cook, I still wonder in amazement how you brave men and women can function and give the effort, the total package needed to preserve law and order when you sometimes are barraged with different dilemmas with which you have to deal with in a timely manner? Honesty, integrity, durability and clarity become crystal clear when confounded with a task to carry out. You did your assignments well my neighbor, friend and hero and now you can rest in peace.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 17, 2013

Take this kiss upon the brow! And in parting from you now, this much let me avow, You are not wrong, who deem, that My days have been a dream, yet if hope has flown away in a night or in a day, in a vision, or in none, all that that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. Officer Cook, you dared to dream as we all do and you realized what hard work, sweat and toil would do for you. It made you a man among men and wiser than most beyond their years. Now we can only stop and ponder what would be if you were here with us today. So much promise, so much love, so much humility to light up an entire banquet hall. But, you know what? You'll never be out of our sight or minds because of your fearless pursuit of justice and equality. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 17, 2013

Careful words make for a careful life; careless talk may ruin everything. You are in for trouble if you sin, but you will be rewarded if you live right. As you grew up Officer Cook, God rewarded you and Karen by giving you new opportunities and open doors. He helped you both attain: self-confidence, overcoming fear, gaining skills, gaining wisdom and knowledge, practicing persistence and perseverance, changing attitudes about failure, getting rid of bitterness, stopping blame, giving up victim thinking, growing in your ability to confront issues in a positive manner, overcoming control issues, controlling anger. You excelled in being calm, cool, collected and most reasonable when dealing with domestic issues, gaining the ability to say no, growing in relationship skills, resolving old hurts and trauma, overcoming depression, I don't think you were ever in this condition, overcoming addictions and compulsive behaviors, overcoming impulsiveness, and giving up wistful thinking. To become the excellent police officer that you were, Officer Cook, your career was propelled by a mix of relentness determination, pragmatism, patience, risk and energy to carry you through your shift. In God's grace He had given both you and Karen the intelligence necessary to make wise life-decisions that would take you up the ladder of success. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Some of those traits listed were things that were both instilled and taught to you and Nancy, that you needed to avoid.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 17, 2013

Be angry and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. Anger can be so destructive and yet it can preserve good things. We're angry because of losing you in a tragic and untimely fashion and yet we know that God is compassionate and full of kindness a she is slow to anger. He forgives us quicker than the blink of an eye. Officer Cook, your characteristics so closely emulated Our Creator and that was the reason you were able to achieve as much as you did in your years on the force. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 17, 2013

All of us want to feel like we are accomplishing things that matter and to be successful in what we do. But many times we either don't know what we should be doing, how to do it, or how to make it work. The good news is that God has created you for a specific purpose and has revealed the secrets that will help you find that purpose and make it succeed. It is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose. if you will it to happen it will usually happen. It sure did happen for both you and Karen, Officer Cook. Both of you became accomplished in your professions because of hard work and the perseverance to achieve. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 17, 2013

Solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil. be careful who you trust with your heart, your dreams and your very soul. You placed your trust firmly in God's hands, Officer Cook. maybe we could have done something for you so you might still be with us. But the paramedics and doctors did all they could to save you. They worked their utmost. God had plans for you to join Him as another of His True Blue Angels supporting your comrades in this world as you faithful watch along with Our Creator over them. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 17, 2013

This is God's message: Attend to matters of justice. See things right between people. Rescue victims from their exploiters. Don't take advantage of the homeless, the orphans, the widows. Stop the murdering! You championed all these causes, Officer Cook. Your resolve as a police officer was to do as much to make certain they were safe and secure. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 17, 2013

Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way. if you don't know what you're doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You'll get His help and won't be condescended to when you ask for it. Life has its twists and turns and can be downright unfair and cruel at times. but we are supposed to trust in Our maker. You did Officer Cook. We still mourn your loss and know you are in a better place in heaven next to your beloved father, Charles. May you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. We must always be careful as trouble chases sinners, while blessings reward the righteous.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

March 17, 2013