Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida
End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979
Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook
Meant to say, Officer Cook, You should have been granted to see. Heaven is where you welcome those brave, honest and loyal heroes and heroines who cross that "Thin Blue Line" taking their dignified places of integrity with all other superior and dependable angels of valor, vigilance and versatility, it's what the people of Dade County came to expect and the service you rendered was top notch and first class in dedication, determination and resourceful devotion and leadership revered by all. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 17, 2022
Meant to say, Officer Cook, You should have been granted to see. Heaven is where you welcome those brave, honest and loyal heroes and heroines who cross that "Thin Blue Line" taking their dignified places of integrity with all other superior and dependable angels of valor, vigilance and versatility, it's what the people of Dade County came to expect and the service you rendered was top notch and first class in dedication, determination and resourceful devotion and leadership revered by all. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 16, 2022
Glory shall spread its wings of humane care, kindness and hopeful consideration for all. Society has suffered enough afflictions due to the rise in crime and bedlam that seems unending. Officer Cook, you comported and composed yourself in honor, integrity and dignity never just guessing but relying upon your basic instincts and intuition to see Dade County through its darkest of times. Faithful, accountable and filled with a heart of virtue and vitality. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You built bridges and foundations for a more safer future one you should be granted to see. An angel forever soaring high above!
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 16, 2022
Perseverance is the parachute of faith, hope and goodwill's appeal. Mankind cannot keep falling and plummeting into the abyss. Dade County needed a strong man with an ironclad will and constitution to save the day. You were the man for the job, Officer Cook,, healthy, heroic and enriching. Badge#1664 was the smile yet the tasks were done by a noble Godsend blessed with humbleness, dignity and integrity all making their waves of nobility and sanctity being felt far and wide. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Justice will prevail and the scents of serious violence will cease for good . Let us pray!
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 16, 2022
Jumping off of mountains is of course dangerous, deadly and plain unsmart. Police work is filled with peril and from moment to moment, hour to hour one never knows what to expect. That day, Officer Cook, you and your partner were about to complete your shift and you heard a call of another fellow brother down and requesting assistance. You answered the call, your honesty, heart and soul of dignity, integrity and respectful character were left on the streets of Dade County to serve, save and shield with your versatility and virtue. A real man of wisdom, vision and maturity following the tracks of truth to make society greater and more harmonious. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 16, 2022
Any notion of bias, unfairness and mistrust could have fatal consequences whenever one is fighting off terror, evil, violence and other chaos that can ruin the best laid plans of humanity. Never dodging nor shying away from your roles and assignments, Officer Cook, as Dade County utilized your tools of tenacity and honesty with a genuine humility about them. With a heart of dignity, integrity and character you never went wrong. One of the very best, consummate, loyal and genuinely proficient. You'll be missed forever as your family carries the baton of your heroic life and career with them daily as they live and breathe with your treasured name in their hearts. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 16, 2022
The world is humbled when great men and women of honor, humility, heart and heroism stand together to serve and protect the vast resources where life and property shall never be infringed upon. Your life and career, Officer Cook, were the constant morals and character necessary to battle evil. With reliability and the very fortitude of your spirit did you go out and give the citizens of Dade County every ounce of virtue, resolve and wisdom, so that integrity and dignity could face reality. Sacred passions, earthly journeys that were accomplished despite the fact that violence robbed you of continuing your trustworthy and truthful paths and trails where justice must be fair and firm. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 16, 2022
Your family and department were humbly grateful to you, Officer Cook, for all your honorable and heroic efforts to serve and to protect the good people of Dade County. You were an amazing young man girded in strength with a heart and soul of dignity, integrity and reverent character all to be commended. Your missions of faith, hope and goodwill enriched, uplifted and enhanced our ways of life, serene and tranquil. We will always salute you for loyalty, humbleness, esteem and for embracing the highest of professional standards of conduct. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A pioneer whose legacy of wisdom, vision and virtue that will stand forevermore.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 16, 2022
Being informed is always the essential way to thrive. To live passionately, to continue your missions with a specific cause, purpose and reason that is how you lived your heroically humble life, Officer Cook. Taking honesty, virtue and dignity to the highest levels of integrity and reverence this is how we pay homage and respect to a man, a gentleman who paid the ultimate sacrifice for Dade County and its people. To stay the course, to perform in an outstanding manner all with principles, ethics, wisdom and discipline upholding the pristine badge and uniform you donned for six years of toil, sweat and blood. From a heart, soul and spirit always treasured, blessed and most notably rewarded for its feelings of vigilance and consistent effort that never wavered nor waffled. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 15, 2022
The implanting and instilling are the impressions that will not fade and go away. Acumen, awareness and versatility were a living and breathing part of your professional stamina and stable trails of grace and valor, Officer Cook. For the citizens of Dade County they meant everything that defined your roles and responsibilities towards civilization. To create a bond among those who live to pursue their dreams, goals and aspirations, they could only be done if you accentuated your journeys with character all stellar and sterling as the pillars of your undying and unwavering heart and soul. They were sacredly placed in this world to perpetuate serenity, safe havens and for freedom of movement. We salute your ingenuity, intuition and intelligence are relied upon and recognized for their top notch and first class efforts poured forth. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 15, 2022
Police work is not a ballet, though you must move fast when wickedness and terror look to strike and cause undue harm to the public at large. Dade County was your community where you began your career, Officer Cook, sadly it ended there all too soon because of one man with nothing but vengeance and venom in his heart and soul. Still makes you wonder how anyone living with three generations of his family was not properly raised with character, honor and reverence as you were raised with these and dignity, humble, humane and just. The truth and trust are humbly a part of your heroic legacy that floats higher each moment in the skies above. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 15, 2022
Heroes and heroines are not just in the past, they are today's gallant group of women and men all geared and engaged in fulfilling their earthly missions of robust resolve, resiliency and resourcefulness that shall endure for generations to come. Your humble and humane honesty, integrity and dignity, Officer Cook, supported you in your every battle, war and fight over violence and Dade County is the benefactor of your leadership, its mantels are vast as was your soul and heart always loyal, concerned and most gracious. That is from your upbringing and it's always a good idea to come from a devout and caring home environment. Never forgotten for candor, a smile and the versatility that is wisdom, vision and clarity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 15, 2022
The essential elements of endeavor are courage, class and the decency that carries dedication, determination down the roads of fortitude. Having a good attitude will surely allow one to become more accomplished and there can be no doubt if you were allowed to live on, Officer Cook, Dade County and its residents would have prospered and benefitted more from your experience and tireless responses all gaged around the fences of heart, honor, dignity and integrity far superior than others because of your maturity and unselfish work ethics and virtue. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 15, 2022
An inkling and some intuition are nice, but, having integrity, dignity and character are honesty's best supporting members when faced with evil and other such adversity. Dade County was made safer by your humble pilgrimages and patrols of respect and diligence, Officer Cook. A man whose heroism and humility are came from your sincere and devoted heart and soul. They all uplifted, enriched and enhanced humanity with virtue, scruples and trust following your paths and trails of truth and perseverance. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 15, 2022
A college degree is a humble accomplishment. But,one's honesty, dignity and integrity is far superior in enhancing our world, a society filled with problems and chaos at times. The situations call for the most immediate of measures and that day of May 16, 1979, you took matters along with your last partner, Reserve Officer Scott Lincoln, Officer Cook, into your hands and feet of wisdom, vision and maturity to attempt to quell a domestic disturbance that threatened the hope, faith and goodwill of Dade County folks. A badge of humbleness worn with esteem and loyalty blessed with trusted and truthful conviction. All your earthly journeys were commitments and character from a man well respected among his peers and of course those whom you protected with heart, soul and passion. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 14, 2022
Courage and honor are the very salt and pepper which mankind craves. They desire hard working, vigilant and dignified public servants sorting through a mass of troubles. You were the consummate go to leader for advice and sage wisdom, Officer Cook. Where integrity and intuition lied there was your personality, charm and charisma making strides to preserve the quality of life here in Dade County. Not many would venture where your earthly missions of goodwill took you. Your community forever salutes your versatility and sacred heart of heroic actions every second of your waking life. Nothing was more important than your family and department. They'll never forget you! Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 14, 2022
A tap dance won't stop evil. All toes must be affixed to the roads and streets one protects. It's not artistry, it's ingenuity and integrity that make the most essential of decisions when life and death are straddling that line. Your desire, honor and humbleness made that difference, Officer Cook, in how Dade County would prosper in tranquility and not in violence. Taken too soon, your soul of virtue still watches over your family and those humble servants who have taken over your important watch over us. Such a blessed man rewarded for heroism and loyalty. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 14, 2022
A humble leader knows where their eyes and ears need to be.That's exactly why Dade County relied upon your wisdom, virtue and vision, Officer Cook, sheltered in the wings of honor, dignity and integrity. Eternity contains a human being with a heart and soul of sincerity, one that trusted society for being a place where peace and stability can co-exist. It happened because of the tireless effort of badge#1664, yours, my neighbor, friend and hero. A gentleman blessed with knowledge, revered for possessing character and always being truthful. Rest in peace. Humility and hope try their utmost to ward off adversity.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 14, 2022
Gallant as gold, giving as a gracious public servant, your paths and trails, Officer Cook, were marked with heroism and humility, it was the honor, integrity and dignity that was placed inside of you to watch over your family and Dade County where your legacy serves as a hopeful inspiration of faith and goodwill all locked within the chests of trust and courage endless and most bountiful. When a man of class and character seeks out the truth it will come from somewhere. Heaven is where angels of bravery soar every second as they humanely patrol the streets above. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 14, 2022
The villains who victimize civilization will soon be apprehended and convicted of their crimes. While patrolling Dade County your eagerness, astuteness and awareness, Officer Cook, was always central to the well being and welfare of those citizens whom you served with honor, reverence and all the dignity that was found in your humble integrity. Everything laid out with a plan of attack to get to the root of the problems confronting humanity which like your beloved family misses you very much. Such a wonderful soul with a sincere and a kind heart. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 14, 2022
Your spirit, Officer Cook, gently embraces mankind everyday in some way, shape and manner. For all that you accomplished in twenty-five years of living, honesty, dignity and integrity are all implanted within the hearts and souls of your beloved family. As they carry forward your heroic legacy may they be blessed as Dade County was and is with peace of mind, virtue and diligence in all their earthly pursuits. And may Our Lord shine His countenance upon you forevermore. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Character, commitment and conviction born with desire, passion and unwavering trust and truth.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 14, 2022
A life with a gentle heart and soul patrolling Dade County for the welfare of humanity. Your years of experience, education and heroic authority, Officer Cook, are now and forevermore a part of the history of your community never to be taken in vain only revered and solemnly admired for giving every ounce and morsel of honor, dignity and integrity. Like the sand in an hourglass, you never wasted a single second conquering the callousness that continues its invading of society. Power is a tool not an ego and to be utilized with virtue, wisdom and a balance of vision poured forth. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. God's pristine gates are guarded by fortitude and the ferocity necessary for angels to soar and to roam freely as Our Master's flock of tenacity.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 13, 2022
Lethargic will not cut the mustard. Yearning, heart and honesty do better against foes that seem to perturb and disturb the make up of mankind. Dade County is not window dressing, the community is a place where effort, efficiency and an unrelenting heart and soul will more than likely get the jobs done right. You functioned as a duly sworn officer, Officer Cook, character, commitment and convictions all remembered for their desire, dedication and decency. The letters of integrity, dignity and intuition rest comfortably in God's heaven where angels patrol and walk their beats above unharmed. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 13, 2022
Dates and calendars are our crucial reminders to help our thinking process, to ponder, to understand and to comprehend the hope of society as it battles adversity every moment. Each waking second is valuable and cannot be lost. Officer Cook, your life of substance, serenity, honor and integrity all were dignified and all magnified in character, heart and hopeful desire, the decency to provide safety for the folks of all Dade County. Badge#1664 was reverent, reliable, versatile and virtuous to the letter. Never overlooked, shelved or forgotten for now you take your angelic place as your family and department's hero. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 13, 2022
If you speak, talk only the truth the words of its virtue, wisdom and solace will set your mind at ease. The comfort and the feeling of safety was your onus, Officer Cook, an assignment accepted freely, willingly and without regret nor hesitation. Dade County was where your humane patrols occurred and everyday was a newer beginning. The sun rose that day you said goodbye to Karen, no one ever conjured up the thoughts of something going so wrong. Dignity, integrity and ingenuity all presented the hopeful scenarios of our peace and everlasting freedom of movement to chase after our humble passions. The pursuits of life, health and prosperity all joined together by your scruples, values and principles. Sorely missed, solemnly blessed and rewarded by Our Maker. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 13, 2022
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