Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida
End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979
Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook
Whether tired or exhausted the endeavor must never waver. A solemn and humble affirmation undertaken to protect the image of Dade County and its citizens. Your class, concern and courage, Officer Cook, won't be overlooked. The humbleness of an honored soul whose heart and integrity were all vintage dignity, reverence and the outstanding job of keeping harmony and unity moving forward. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 27, 2020
Energy and tireless efficiency are supposed to give honesty, integrity and dignity a fighting chance to succeed when violence and evil threaten to harm a community. Certainly you were a confident man, Officer Cook, a first class hero of humility and heart, distinguished character widely respected and never forgotten for forging newer relationships and building those bridges of loyalty throughout Dade County. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Dade County was very humbled and fortunate to have a dedicated man working solemnly and diligently within its esteemed ranks.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 27, 2020
Dade County was your sounding board, Officer Cook,as you listened and contributed to the very landscape of our futures. Those would have been made brighter if you were here to witness your vigilant achievements that counteracted terror and torment. A man of his word whose wisdom validated your honorable virtue and desirable dignity and tireless energy and enhanced integrity which brought some semblance,some measure of harmony, hope,faithful goodwill back to your humble community. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 26, 2020
Your success and accomplishments meant the world to your beloved family,friends and comrades, Officer Cook. Never missing a beat your battled, fought and stood up defending our tranquility and safe journeys throughout Dade County. Heroes are sturdy men and women of sound minds and strong hearts that yearn to learn to soak up more ideals that only accentuate good character and the quality found in trustworthy commitments to pride and excellence. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 26, 2020
We laugh. We cry. We hope. We pray. Whenever dedicated and resourceful public servants hit the streets their families pray with resolve that their humble honor, dignity and incorporated integrity can win the toughest of wars. You were centered and focused on your most essential duties countering crime in Dade County, Officer Cook. Heroes and heroines are angels not to be overlooked nor stored away and forgotten. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 26, 2020
Angels sacrifice for a cause. Ingenuity and intuition are better served by using them with discretion. Dade County was preserved by your intellect, dignity and integrity, Officer Cook, heroically facing violence straight on never flinching an eye. Those future men and women have your legacy to uphold as they carry humility and their hearts right to the battle. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 26, 2020
Your heart and soul, Officer Cook, have been angelically uplifting to heaven. Your life and Dade County career all the makings of morals and values so dear as much as your character, honesty, integrity and dignity. They all enhanced society and enriched the horizons you crossed through in life so purposefully. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 26, 2020
Serenity and peace are the things humanity reveres. Dade County respected your honor, heroism and bravery, Officer Cook. A gentleman with humane integrity, dignity always remembered and cherished for making mankind fitter to stand tall through evil. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Sacred passions, noble missions all faithfully and truthfully carried out.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 26, 2020
I think I meant to say, Officer Cook, how can you smile and put on a happy face? You were positive and upbeat aside from being honest and earnest. Experience teaches us many lessons to impart to all future men and women who serve. Dade County was blessed by your bountiful heart, mind and soul. A hero forever cherished for making a huge difference. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your smile by the American flag was all business and no horsing or fooling around when peril and violence looked to usurp the goodwill of society. Traditions are sacred and your life and career of valor and versatility were the exemplary by-products of virtue and humbleness.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 25, 2020
How can you smile and out on a happy face? You can be a leader, motivator and yet a pupil with a thirst to soak in as much knowledge as possible and be gratefully genuine which you were for six years of service to the residents of Dade County, Officer Cook. Your family's warrior, hero and honored servant who more than galvanized gallantry demonstrating that energy, heart and endeavor move than steer humble integrity and dignity. They are faced such a rotten man bent on revenge with such a warped mind. I'll never understand how you reside with three generations of family members and don't have a hint of humility, respect and decency? Yours, Officer Cook, was never tarnished and forever carries the Cook,Tidwell and Wilkerson Family names uplifting and upholding a community and venue you only looked forward daily to enhancing and enriching by tireless and unselfish professionalism. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 25, 2020
Courage in the very face of callousness in Dade County. Honesty warming the humble pangs of perseverance and prosperity. Dignity displaying its finest resolve when times seemed desperate and wholesome integrity launched into the cowards who court evil in their robes. Our Maker certainly girded you with strength and heart all heroic, Officer Cook and never distant from your adoring family and cherished colleagues of trust, truth and humility. Badge#1664 donned devotion, dedication and serenely peaceful determination all throughout your fruitful missions of morals, courtesy and outstanding effort energizing a community that keeps paying you homage for your integral service. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 25, 2020
The bad men and women should not be toting the high powered weaponry. What you steadfastly maintained and carried with you, Officer Cook, was honesty, integrity and dignity and the people of Dade County recognized them and your personal greeting with a warm and endearing smile. The class of courage and character together imparted the wisest of messages to be exercised and forever kept up. One's sacred pilgrimages should be duly noted and humanely paid homage for their esteem and ideals to be imparted through others. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 25, 2020
A name follows you where you travel. A blessing stays imparted within your family's heart. Honesty and dignity stay embellished by humanity for their humility always lights up the skies. Simply, Officer Cook, mankind and society revered you and your heroic sacrifice to make Dade County stand tall, proud and humble. Evil does not recognize anything remotely related to outstanding character, commitments loud and wise, convictions trusted and to the point. God watches over you and His many other superbly talented angels of valor. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 25, 2020
The profession evolves and yet one's willingness to adopt to change must be more than routinely considered. Facts are just that. You were one worthy gentleman, Officer Cook, whose honor, bravery and enduring heart of integrity and dignity fought those battles where adversity looked to steer its teeth of treachery into the very region of Dade County. So much left undone and yet you completed your earthliest of missions with everlasting faith, hope and goodwill attached to your kites of consideration, care and concern for mankind to pursue its peace and happiness. You were taken from that and never will be forgotten. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 25, 2020
An ace in everything that is normal in all whoever serve their communities. You preserved the quality of life here in Dade County, Officer Cook, a heroic legend never forgotten. Grace and gallantry allow you to walk your heavenly beat without harm trailing behind. Gone too soon and forevermore honored for duly noted character, commitment and trustworthy convictions of truth and passion. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 25, 2020
You were a delightful individual, Officer Cook, so refined and well mannered. Politeness is not a show of bravado, it was your heart and soul of honesty, integrity and the dignity showered by ingenuity. For those living in Dade County your life and career were a blessing to all. Mankind misses your sweet smile and wonderful disposition. Violence should not have taken such a handsome man still with more left to accomplish. God deemed your missions, journeys and paths in life as complete and took you home to eternity where you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 25, 2020
The hours are at times cold and long. But shadows of doubt never remain. You willingly accepted your calling to serve and to protect Dade County with all your might and heart. The valor of virtue, the courage of honor and integrity, the character of dignity serving as your legend of heroic inspiration cannot be overlooked. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 25, 2020
Heroes of resourcefulness and resiliency are forever going to be praised and treasured. By your fortitude and tenaciousness, Officer Cook, Dade County was properly able to withstand an onslaught of violence that took your soul away from your loved ones and appreciative comrades. When honor, integrity and dignity are taken and disrespected something surely is out of kilter with humanity. You were a most reliable, faithful and noble young man, a gentleman blessed with wisdom, vision and maturity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 25, 2020
Clarity clears up conflict. Honesty supports those beams of bravery and boldness so long as integrity and dignity strive to fight evil. Dade County was made better off by your humbly sacred feats of ferocity and mettle, Officer Cook. You are going to be saluted and always cherished for giving your heart and soul for principles and scruples to be emulated by other public servants. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 25, 2020
Those rockets of rage launched against Dade County that horrific day were meant to shake up the citizens and for those not only shaken but wounded by a mad man's gunfire you answered your final call, Officer Cook, with heroic honor and class all from decency, dignity and integrity which all must accompany such a spirited in his hours of valor and virtue. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 25, 2020
Justice for all and light to dispel the darkness of the world. Your heart and soul, Officer Cook, were all honest, dignified and filled with heroic resolve and integrity which covered Dade County like a blanket. The world and your family this time of the year so miss you and your sacred character and solemn truth and trust all following your trails of tenacity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 25, 2020
Officer Cook, your name and character have been blessed and nobly rewarded from heaven. A cherished man of courage, a treasured man of tenacity all revolving around those posts of perseverance and proficiency to watch over Dade County's citizens. A gentleman with a heart of gold and a soul of salvation doing their parts to continue the heroic legacy by which you lived every second of your life by. Morals, scruples and principles composing honor, integrity and dignity which battled against adversity, strife and wickedness.You'll be remembered and fondly etched within your family's hearts this day and every season. Happy holidays to the Wilkerson, Tidwell Families and to your extended relatives and to you Karen, Mrs. Bonidy a healthy and hearty Christmas and a happy new year. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 24, 2020
A jammed finger in a door hurts very much. One evil man discharging a firearm at police taken a life of one man, such a beautiful and a precious soul, so appreciative and grateful to serve his community. You really were a nice man and a warm and wonderful human being concerned for the stability, harmony,health and welfare of Dade County's flock of people. What can be stated so profoundly when a public servant has his dignity,integrity and honesty ripped right out of his heart by a very wanton and angry individual. All we can say is he got his punishment and humility, sanctity and accountability has been surely blessed and eternally rewarded for performing outstandingly. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 24, 2020
Those who are founded in faith and well rounded in honesty, integrity and the humility of everything respectful in dignity, character and bravery so may Our Lord guide their journeys over those streams of sanctity and rivers of resolve. The Creator, Officer Cook, navigated truth and trust around the many corners, streets and roads of Dade County as you heroically discharged your unending,unrelenting and most tireless duties to combat violence and to thwart terror. Such a day that tragic day lives forever in the hearts,minds and prayers of your family, comrades and acquaintances who have only saluted and revered your capable wisdom,vision and maturity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 24, 2020
The port side and starboard side of a ship are like the honesty and integrity of a public servant and you cannot ever begin to function without them or dignity, character and respect. You broadened those horizons, Officer Cook,with your passion and sacredly trusted and truthful journeys throughout Dade County. No man or woman goes to a place and not comprehends their missions. Yours, justified our faith in your unselfishly unwavering talents to seize harmony and the togetherness that society yearns for. Suffice it to say your family, comrades and close friends have dearly missed you and your broad smile all these decades later. A model of consistency and courage abounded from your humbly wise heart and soul. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 24, 2020
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