Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida
End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979
Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook
Loose cannons cannot accomplish. Truth of the matter is that those women and men who are dedicated, devoted and most resourceful have a better than average chance of reassuring the public in times of crisis. Dade County was your ground, Officer Cook, where your heroic name came through in the clutch. Excellence in dignity,humility and integrity from a soul and caring heart of gold. We don't overlook nor forget passion and perseverance. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 5, 2021
Luck is good fortune. Better to be skillful and loyal,cherished and maintain goodwill, Officer Cook. Your sense of fairness, trust and virtue were all part of your package of versatility, integrity and the wisdom of dignity protecting the residents of Dade County as you affixed your awareness, acumen and astounding character to your professional roles and onuses. generations from now will fondly remember you and the badge of intuition you wore. The uniform proudly held your morals, scruples and values from within your heart.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 5, 2021
Stay in shape, stay careful and attuned and please stay honest, focused and dignified. You surely can be proud as your parents were watching over you, Officer Cook,from above. So humble,instrumental and fundamentally sound and secure the manner for which you provided Dade County with blessings, serenity and wholesome respect because of the truth you had and trust you gained through competence and experience. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 5, 2021
The cream of the crop rises to the top. The standards and whatever honor, dignity and integrity must be possessed to continue these humane battles against terror and tyranny. You were a loyal soldier, Officer Cook,heroic, bold and you always went above and beyond because of your unselfish heart,soul,character and reverent virtue never to be forgotten. Cornerstones built and foundations forever laid out for others to attempt to succeed in. This fight is not over quite yet with your soul watching from heaven perhaps mankind will someday flourish in prosperity and tranquility. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 5, 2021
You shook and shook until evil was uprooted, Officer Cook. You were a savior,warrior and a hero for the entire world, your family department and all Dade County. Civilization will forever recall your loyalty, humble heart, heroic soul so endearing and engaging. A gentleman who had trust and truth running with him on all his trials and trails of virtue, vigilance and the due diligence that comes from ingenuity, wisdom and vision. We salute you as you remain a precious human being with a spirit eternally angelic, Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 5, 2021
A beginning and an ending, just the ending should not have taken place just yet as you had more on your horizons, Officer Cook, to accomplish. Heroism is a word sometimes thrown about loosely. It's living a life and performing a career with loyalty, character, respect and esteem that has endeared you all these decades later to the people of Dade County. A mature individual understands their roles and answers accordingly. Violence is a menace to goodwill, hope and to mother nature that needs to be eliminated if peace, unity and tranquility are going to make strides. You gave your life my neighbor,friend and hero, you put your heart,soul and spirit in virtue's eyes and ears and Our Creator listened. He had to call you back to His eternal house to serve a much different role where its versatility and angelic manner would maintain the perfection only the world after knows. Rest in peace.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 4, 2021
Parents help to not only give birth to us, that is our dearly beloved mothers, but our fathers also share in the onus as they help to guide, shape and mold our very thought process. The environment is just the genesis. The egg and the yoke are the central parts and the components of honesty,dignity and integrity are truthful and trustworthy character, a conviction where ingenuity is spot on. A commitment to excellence and to pride must be ushered in above all else. Dade County has a true warrior, a wonderful soul with a charismatic heart in you, Officer Cook. Forevermore a hero who had a spotless reputation and had his dreams and aspirations lined up and ready to patrol. The serenity, security and safe havens were brought about through virtue, vigilance, versatility and the volumes of yearning to become the very best public servant who chartered a newer course for all humanity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 4, 2021
You can attempt to replicate goodwill, hope and whatever elements may make this society better served. But, if all the prepping and planning goes awry problems, dilemmas and issues will continue to surface and leave an abysmal mark. The streets, roads and corners are the targets and only a young man with sterling, stellar and staunch wisdom,vision and maturity, your entire package of perseverance and persistence paid off, Officer Cook. The springboards to success against adversity came down to your refined honor, comprehensive dignity and due diligence and integrity that was deeply integrated within the confines of your fine character and heart, soul and spirit of virtue always missed but solemnly saluted. Badge#1664 had a mission to keep and to observe it conducted its responsibilities for one quarter of your life and tragically God called His hero now an angel home to rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 4, 2021
A standard that is a tough order for most to accomplish. Its acquisition must somehow be created through the bonds of boldness and reason. Your honesty, dignity and integrity, Officer Cook, never lacked any morsel of truth and trustworthiness. For this Dade County is grateful to you, your family and department for allowing you the heart, wisdom and virtue to meet these demands and expectations. Character that was not coveted. Commitment humble and believable. Conviction not contrived and surely as the sun rises and sets a good man, a wonderful human being is saluted and honored by mankind for his faithful missions of consequence. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 4, 2021
Your life sacred and humble, your career honorable and heroic, Officer Cook, has been fondly and solemnly remembered, saluted and certainly cherished for fulfilling your journeys and their onuses here in Dade County. Unassuming character, the clarity of precision and the validity of your tireless heart, soul and virtue will forever be revered and admired. Mettle is just one chip of faith,trust and truth, the others are commitment and conviction as Our Lord's heavenly gates of heroism open wide to welcome those fallen warriors of grit, passion and fortitude. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 4, 2021
Courage, commitment and conviction that performed their earthiest of responsibilities and sadly concluded their roles of truth and trust the only way they could. For preserving the dignity, integrity and humility of Dade County's residents may God stand over your heart, soul and spirit, Officer Cook, blessing, protecting and humanely rewarded its outstanding virtue, versatility and the sanctity of your career and life so pristine and so passionate. Unwavering, undying and unselfish for twenty-five years, six as a public servant whose unending missions of hope, faith and goodwill will forever be saluted. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 4, 2021
The sun shines by day and the moon at night. Your humility, heart and soul of honor, Officer Cook, glowed brilliantly every waking second of your life and public service career filled with blessing, success and loyalty guided by Our King from His heavenly thrones of trust and truth. Dade County was the very foundation of your incredible integrity, devoted dignity and wholesome character, its reverence priceless and your virtue so much so most valuable during those difficult and toughest of times. The citizens received more than a lion's share of safe shelters, havens of security and castles where your courage, crusades and faithful earthly missions still stands today as a reminder very vivid that one young man, a gentleman refined by resolve and effort made headway in these wars over wickedness and your treasured soul my neighbor, friend and hero is never overlooked nor forgotten. Rest in peace.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 3, 2021
Charm, candor and charisma are all your sweet and special smiles wrapped in paper and sealed forevermore in heaven's nest of heroes and heroines, Officer Cook. They are to be utilized to walk your perfect beat watching over the pearly gates of gladness, boldness and reverence. A God fearing man whose mettle, morals and meaningful life and career was supported by the pillows of honor,dignity and integrity all embracing goodwill, hope and desire here in Dade County. You took to the folks and enriched, enhanced and uplifted them to higher heights of freedom,liberty and everything basic in unity and humbleness.To harness the power, genuine authority must be real not just practical. Your hopes,aspirations and dreams were finally realized when your badge was pinned to your chest of character, pride and sacred journeys undertaken by you that underscored the importance and passions symbolic in life and during your watch. Your heart and lungs beat as one, your soul tireless and unending, your spirit of venture versatile, reliable and filled with virtue. All are very much missed today and forevermore. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 3, 2021
A gentleman of relevance, resiliency and the efficiency put forth will never be forgotten. That's one sure fact. Never ever has Dade County forsaken your name, Officer Cook, it's forever been blessed, rewarded and has accentuated your family's pursuits of health, peace and prosperity. Such a mature and loyal young man who was skilled, talented,gifted and gallant fighting off evil. May 16,1979 was a day of grief,anger, agony and sadness for your family, department, the world in general and a plethora of friends who recognized greatness when then witnessed security and serenity firsthand. Your parents, wife and sister all have mourned you, had anguish engulfing their hearts and souls but somehow through tragedy have gone forward with their lives as you would have wanted them to. Your heroic legacy remains the bond of truth and trust. You sacrifice has yielded many memories pleasant and sure. Faith, devoutness and decency was humane and centered around the wisdom,vision and virtue of class and desire. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Perseverance that continues its perpetual motions throughout our society.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 3, 2021
Paths and trails all lead in different directions. But, truth and trust must follow the same course and must be administered by one who is captivating and honest of which badge#1664 was and forever is honored. Humility and the strength of your unyielding heart, undying soul and compassion allowed you to function most ably. Capability, durability and versatility are all important virtues to have and to treasure. Dade County was your home turf, Officer Cook, heroism was your partner throughout your life and career patrolling the streets and in keeping law and order. Heaven is where you have walked your proverbial beat perfect and serene for over forty-two years though things will never be the same without your candor,charm and smile so refreshing and so vibrant. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 3, 2021
Devotion is the potent source of one's fierce dedication, determination and diligence to all responsibility. It's accountability multiplied many times over and a main reason, Officer Cook, you were able to direct, lead and motivate other comrades through danger's hands. Dade County does not and should never forget a man's passion, persuasiveness, intellect and assurances of completing those central assignments that helped to enrich, enhance and uplift the spirits of your neighborhood. Success is the goal. failure is totally unacceptable. A life of honor preceded by dignity, respect, humility and integrity that shielded us in safety, tranquility surely to be noted, paid homage to and saluted for its unwavering bravery. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 3, 2021
Resourcefulness is the very humble companion of faithfulness. Meaning you cannot have one element without the other. Heroism is one part of integrity, one ingredient of dignity and one important and essential dividend of honesty. For Dade County and the sake of its residents, Officer Cook, you possessed and maintained these characters and reverence for your twenty-five years of life, six years of vital service to your community and have been praised, blessed and cherished for being humble and having an unselfish heart, soul and spirit that is forever eternally angelic. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 3, 2021
The bonds of serenity are forever protected and watched over by virtue of your humble, heroic and honorable soul, Officer Cook. Dade County was defended by a man of dignity, integrity and the character that challenges ingenuity in its battles over evil. Adversity can serve to band the citizens or it can permit violence to uproot and tear apart the goodwill, hope and faith of humanity. That never happened under your eyes my neighbor, friend and hero. Responsibility, sanctity and civility will not let unassuming and unselfish endeavor shake in vain. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 3, 2021
Virtue, vigilance and versatility left a void that horrible day that somehow must be filled though a life lost by terror can never be replaced. Yours, Officer Cook, meant everything to your family, friends and comrades as you bonded together to protect, serve and promote an audience of peaceful times here. A man with hope, faith and goodwill steering your missions then andyour family's forward. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 2, 2021
Your reserve and influence, Officer Cook, was deserving, devoted and dedicated to helping achieve a means to a positive day that on May 16, 1979. It ended so miserably and terribly. Your heart, soul and spirit now angelic in the skies above produced every time out. You patrolled your loving community with principles, honor, integrity and never more dignity flowing from within your loyalty. They are all sacred, serene and were real class and top notch. God rewards and blesses His heroes never forgeting their lives of accountability being able to sustain them through the most difficult of times. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 2, 2021
When duty calls there can be no bellowing. No waffling, no indecisiveness. You went all out full steam ahead, Officer Cook, to humbly create a bond of expression in Dade County to be respected forevermore. All the supreme courtesy, character and unselfish resolve went into your honorable pursuits of harmony. It takes all the ingenuity, integrity and dignity to summon up the courage to stand toe to toe with adversity. A proud and humanely gifted gentleman remembered for your voice of passion, purpose and reason. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 2, 2021
If our nation is to survive evil's onslaughts then you had better buckle your seatbelts. Dade County was mindful as your family and colleagues were, Officer Cook. You rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero with honor, integrity and dignity all pinned to your chest, a badge you donned with courage, conviction and the sincere fortitude of a grateful community. The cornerstones and their pristine foundations are for those taking over your watch to be aware of. Rest in peace.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 2, 2021
You have got to pound the pavement over and over in order to shake the restraints of ruin loose. You do your job right, stay centered, focused and humble, honesty, dignity and integrity are the virtues of a very demanding position. Dade County was your domain, Officer Cook and your heroism, humility, heart and candor will forever be esteemed and treasured. Your family moves onward every moment but has never lost sight of their"Uncle Bo", a man of acumen, intellect and vision. Peace and quiet all because of your unselfish and tireless heart and soul of versatility. Humanity was pleased and so has your family and comrades. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 2, 2021
Perseverance must be persistent. Honor, dignity and integrity must be humanely worn and displayed at all moments. The fights, battles and wars over adversity must be brought down and taken out of commission once and for all. You performed with grace, gallantry, grit and a tenacious heart, Officer Cook, heroic and resourceful. Such faithfulness and devotion, decency and desire all have and will forever be saluted and paid their respects after all a man of soul, spirit and virtue must always be cherished and solemnly etched upon hearts and minds. Your beloved family carries your sacred baton of heroism and humility through their daily treks to be fondly incorporated within their journeys of tranquility and liberty for all mankind. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You can humbly welcome slain Hollywood Police Officer Yandy Chirino to the heavenly ranks of perfection where he and you serve as two of God's many heroic angels guarding the pearly gates of versatility, reliability and effort.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 2, 2021
You fill a hole. A void and a sad loss of life, yours, Officer Cook, meant everything to your family. You cannot replace a good man snuffed out and robbed of his dignity, integrity and fundamental honor. Yourcaliber of life was way above the crowd. Dade County received more than a token of wisdom, serenity and unity for each person was your idea and the venue was where respect and admiration were homegrown. Never overlooked, never forgotten and trustworthy beyond any doubt. True trails of sincerity and caring were founded by a most inspirational man, a creator of resolve, effort and virtue all navigating your vehicles. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 1, 2021
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