Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida
End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979
Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook
Take one layer of perseverance and protection away and danger is being given more freedom to commit its acts of bodily harm. You performed the only way you knew how, Officer Cook and that was to be totally honest, sincere and entirely dignified in all your professional affairs. Dade County was safe and sound because of your tireless heart, courage and soul of humbleness all forever being blessed and rewarded in the skies above where angels, heroes and heroines patrol those golden streets paved by Our Creator's perfection. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 10, 2021
Months don't meander. They move with rapidity for rigidity would draw the world into bedlam, chaos and mayhem. Violence and terror is not a tap dance it's a violent stampede over humanity's roots and branches which blossom with leaves of honor, humility, ingenuity and dignity which you always faced peril with, Officer Cook. A hero of resolve and of the gentle nature beloved and adored by your family, peers and entire line of friends. They all care as your being was interested in the public's welfare and preservation. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A man who worked his tail off to gain our very security and safe trails of truth without fear nor trepidation.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 9, 2021
Humanity cringes with fear and yet that is the hope, faith and goodwill that spurs mankind to higher callings. Such an inspiring young man taken from his family and the world all too soon. Officer Cook, you were concerned, courageous, consummate and exceedingly caring toward society which misses your smile, heart and warm soul and now that character and warmth is spreading far and wide as a heroic angel in the skies and plains above us. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. For all the cringing comes the humble uplifting, enriching and enhancing. Dade County will miss you forevermore.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 9, 2021
A wonderful gentleman and a finer human being so refined and entirely noble in all his causes, pursuits and passions. You were devout, Officer Cook and most humble in your unselfish and undying efforts to replace evil with tranquility for all society and for Dade County where your sterling and stellar behavior was always beyond reproach. Such high standards that are being rewarded and blessed in heaven every moment for they all built newer foundations and cornerstones for a more safer future. Today, the past and tomorrow if only you could be here to share in your gallant battles. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 9, 2021
To be loved and to love, one heart and soul connecting another precious heart and soul. A resource surely to be replenished by your devotion and determination, Officer Cook, to succeed, accomplish and to achieve realistic goals and aspirations. They are forever inspirational as your family forges ahead with your heroic legacy of everything we brand as honorable, considerate and the kind of servant whose dignity and integrity gently touched all lives in Dade County where the people have a newer sense of peace and serenity following their every true and trustworthy trail of purpose and passion. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 9, 2021
You have a birds eye from heaven's perches where honesty,integrity and dignity soar as angels. Nothing better than to be heroically recognized as you've been these last forty plus years, Officer Cook, devoting your life and career to Dade County. A man humble and honorable who dedicated his life of integrity to the hearts and souls of dignity. You shall never be overlooked nor forgotten for signing your blessed and revered name to our very freedoms and liberties. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 9, 2021
Service to your country, your community and to your esteemed and most faithfully honest family, Officer Cook, you are certain to be saluted and honored for being composed and sincerely dignified and with a sterling integrity that fought those demanding battles here in Dade County. A man whose heroic feats are legendary and one who will always be fondly and solemnly remembered for having a brave heart and soul of virtue and humility. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 9, 2021
Seniority does not absolve one from responsibility. Such ability and capabilities are directly tied to a person's honesty, integrity and dignity which forever linked them to their community where they serve. You protected and gave your esteemed and cherished life, Officer Cook, for service to Dade County and its people. With upstanding character, commitment to passion, purpose and a cause, your excellent convictions and trustworthiness were those branches of our freedoms and liberties which mankind cannot ever take for granted. Humility, a smile and a serene heart of loyalty, faith and devotion to be sincerely honored and paid a solemn salute. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 8, 2021
You try to prevent and head off any signs of trouble. But, the tasks at hand and solemn onuses do not conclude there. It can be more than eight hours a day if that is what's required. Snowy can be blanketing an area leaving roads filled with ice, the jobs must never stop. Dignity, character, reverence and loyalty must be applied every second never losing track of integrity or intuition. You persevered Officer Cook, by using vision, wisdom, common sense and all the versatility of virtue and humbleness in performing your most faithful of responsibilities and you'll never be forgotten. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 8, 2021
If one pill alone could cure society's ailments that won't ever happen without the good work of all women and men duly determined to end this abyss of awful evil. Dade County cannot continue living in fear and your years of vigilance and due diligence delivered a newer level of comfort and calmness within the streets where honesty, integrity and dignity shall grace themselves every second upon those desiring a newer lease on life and its health, happiness and prosperity. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero. You can only control your limits and area you tried that very tragic day, Officer Cook,to restore safety and serenity.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 8, 2021
Years of yearning, days of dignity, months of mettle, weeks of welcome courage all brought hope, goodwill and an esteemed outlook to Dade County where your career and life seemed destined for elevation. Now a part of the stars at night, may your soul and heart of honor,dignity and the integrity all essential to humility serve as our guiding light for society to march forward with their journeys of resourcefulness. Officer Cook, you are and forever a hero of endeavor and shining resolve and you took responsibility and accountability to heart as a serious minded servant of Our Lord. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 8, 2021
Show heart and consideration, display dedication and you'l find your paths and trails of justice easier to travel down. You always kept a positive and upbeat fortitude about your badge and uniform, Officer Cook. So many have remembered your valor, versatility and virtue which helped to protect the citizens of Dade County where you toiled and were most passionate. The wars and their flames of infamy still rage on, but truth, trust and humility somehow must carry one's accentuated patrols. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 8, 2021
Being lazy and not caring will never suffice in this never ceasing attack of violence over us. Your friendship and likable nature, Officer Cook, brought peaceful shelters to Dade County's folks. Such an upstanding and outstanding public servant, your career and life exemplified the finer fabrics of good morals and conduct certainly becoming an officer. Your honor, integrity and dignity all faced evil and adversity with an attitude of all heart and soul digging into fight those battles of humanity which sorely misses you as does your beloved family members. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 8, 2021
You just try to be safe, smart and extremely humble when performing your sacred duties and their earthliest of missions. Dade County was the locale of your service and protection of its citizens, Officer Cook and hero of his family and close knit peers. Dignity, integrity and honesty all were put forth faithfully and fairly among mankind where your unassuming character, respectful commitments and their trusted convictions from your brave heart and soul will forever be saluted and honored. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 8, 2021
All public servants who ever wear a badge and a crisp uniform know one thing, putting lives ahead of your own to make peace a lasting stability in any and all communities. Dade County is no different and your rightful place, Officer Cook, will be right up front and center with all of its heroes and heroines of virtue, proper conduct and an honesty so endearing just as your dignity, integrity and valid intuitions all now have heaven's perfect attention as you will always be cherished, admired and a man of trust and passion not just swaying in the wind. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 7, 2021
Class and dedication pressed full steam ahead. Never once running, dodging or shying away from adversity that must be stopped at once. Officer Cook, you were a sincere and a most trusted man, so consummate and concerned for Dade County's welfare, you gave your life and career of morals, the obligations of utilizing, integrity, ingenuity and positive dignity to further mankind's trails and paths of perseverance while keeping everything from being derailed. A life is special and so was your virtue, vigilance and due diligence. The steps of an angel recognized for heroism and heart. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 7, 2021
To create is to make an impression,does not matter the size, just something small to begin its genesis and hope that society will one day realize a total harmony where bloodshed and hatred will abdicate their thrones of terror to tranquility and its havens of humility,strength and heart. Your beloved and blessed soul, Officer Cook, weaved its way through the corridors of a community that you lived in. Dade County unfortunately won't ever see badge#1664 again because of one evil man. It will however witness your enrichment, enhancement and truthful commitment still being noticeably felt and for generation after generation the faith, hopeful goodwill will once again rise to the top. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 7, 2021
Rain has not dampened your family's spirits and their pursuits of peace, happiness and good health. You were a good son, brother and a loving husband, Officer Cook, a hero of your family and for the residents of Dade County to forever remember and to salute for channeling your entire being into making tranquility more than a household word. Violence and evil change the structure of our world and it was up to a gentleman of your humane persona to see change through, to correlate dignity with integrity and to objectively utilize your fine and outstanding character to create and to form a lasting bond between all people. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A cornerstone and a foundation genuinely placed by a man of heart and courage striving for wisdom,vision and clarity beyond your maturity.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 7, 2021
Police work is not magic and its hidden tricks. But one tick of the clock tells us it's time to search for some semblance of security and safe passageways for the public at large. Dade County is a large metropolitan community and it required all of your devoted resources, Officer Cook, to kept it safe and sound. To protect, you had to have heart, soul and a passion beating simultaneously in order for the restoration of law and order to take its rightful place among mankind. Your tireless endeavor led to a better tomorrow yet one brighter future if you were here today enjoying your what should have been deserved retirement. Honesty, integrity and dignity are those principles of faith, hope and goodwill that never left you my neighbor, friend and hero. Rest in peace.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 7, 2021
Adversity can only enhance and reinforce one's own balance of tenacity. It's often found in the genes of a most beloved public servant like yourself, Officer Cook, who heroically served the streets and avenues of Dade County with an abundance of care, concern and a loving heart and soul. This is true humbleness as was your unwavering and most unselfish dignity and integrity always carried with proper character, commitment and conviction. You will not be forgotten for having the uplifting maintenance that has prevailed today though we are a little less safe because of your absence. Heaven has an angel of quality, versatility and virtue all sacred, noble and serenely civil. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 7, 2021
The seats in eternity are warmed by your welcome embrace, Officer Cook, just that your family could have for sure used those smiling greetings here today until that time. Your last day my neighbor, friend and hero was probably no different than other days when you left your home to go to work saying goodbye to your beloved wife, Karen. So much honesty,ingenuity and intrigue that always seems to greet its servants of esteem and loyalty. Dade County was your place and its folks were well served by a man of humility and virtue. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 6, 2021
Eternity is the very final destination for the heroic, devoted and dignified hearts and souls of mankind. A place perfect and peaceful with no more hurt,pain and anguish around those who gave their lives and careers for prosperity, happiness and health. They were all created by your energy, unselfish conduct and the integrity, dignity and commitments to excellence that are were prideful and proficient. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero, Officer Cook. Dade County shines on with your soul and spirit continuing their journeys above.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 6, 2021
Blessed and so endearing, your life and career, Officer Cook, all humanely humble and honest allowed Dade County to cherish its life in peace without all this senseless violence permeating around our very community. A place that salutes integrity, dignity and the character of a truly wise and righteous human being. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 6, 2021
What you begin you should be allowed to finish. But, God saw other heavenly plans for a man, a gentleman of legendary foundations who established a rapport with those residents of Dade County whom you served and watched over, Officer Cook, with everlasting honesty, a fulfilled ferocity, dignity that was destined for more sacred earthly missions and integrity that kept on preserving and with your tireless virtue you'll not be forgotten. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 6, 2021
A heart soft and gentle yet very caring, concerned and quite giving. The people of Dade County got the message and have hopefully learned the lessons of hope and goodwill you truthfully imparted upon their souls and hearts, Officer Cook. Reverence and dedication that deserved more life and were duly essential to your performance of your humble duties. Humility and challenges, they all lie ahead of us. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 6, 2021
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