Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida
End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979
Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook
Nothing fragmented about your ferocity and fearlessness, Officer Cook. So virtual and honored. Everyone in your family and department revered and respected your infinite wisdom,devotion to duty and the mature vision that has led t o a brighter tomorrow though one lessened because of your loss. So sad, terrible and above all tragic. A young man carrying out his dreams and inspirations which keep moving forward as does your humble sacred heroic legacy doing its utmost to secure and protect the public at large. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero . Dade County will forever cherish your fighting spirit and heart.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 18, 2020
The keys to humble and sacred journeys and their missions of purpose are found in a mans' secure,humane and very loyal soul of motivation. You never needed prodding, Officer Cook,that's for sure. You possessed marvelous conduct, a smile and a laugh and yet through it all, honesty, dignity and wisdom flowed in your veins of virtue and integrity as you chased down evil here in Dade County. Twenty-five years of humility and civility all marked and capped by noble acts of faith and boldness. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 18, 2020
A bump, a bruise and a scratch you can see another day. But, just a tragedy that overwhelmed your entire family, colleagues and our world, our humanity in general.What transpired that afternoon police face everyday, but your heroic actions, honored and brave, Officer Cook,certainly proved why everyone adored and admired your cunning and fighting heart and soul. You assisted in trying to stabilize the freedom and goodwill of the folks living in and around the community of Dade County. Their harbor and shelter where serenity belongs. Now as an angel you belong with many heroes to Our Lord to continue your proverbial beat above where eternity will steer your spirit where its tasks forever guard us from evil and harm. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 18, 2020
A sage man knows his honesty and holds his humbleness within his chest and heart. Dignity and integrity all locating their directional signals and away one goes to pursue their passions. Such a spirit and soul of virtue so reserved and yet very sincere and sweet. What a smile and what a man you were to Dade County, Officer Cook. Heroism sometimes is loud and clear, yet other moments it's virtually unseen. You performed not for appeal nor for accolades, your attitude and fortitude always was tenacious, never timid, never shying away from harm. You went straight to the problem looking to resolve an issue, to square away the circumstance. Forever blessed and rewarded by Our Master for passion and a presence of crystal clear understanding. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 18, 2020
The conclusion and senseless evil that took you, Officer Cook after all these decades still never seems to make sense. An irrational man inclined to violence just shooting up Liberty City that day and you, your partner and fellow officers doing your honorable utmost to stop his mayhem and chaotic bedlam. For sure Dade County won't ever overlook nor forget your inspiring integrity and dignity all from outstanding character following your truthful and most trustworthy trails of justice. The link is forever instilled and the hopes remain cherished.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 18, 2020
The feelings of hope, goodwill and good nature were all directed and driven by your professional desires,decency and devotion to the practical causes and purposes for which we live. Everyday an officer leaves their home to go to work, God endeavors to return them safely after their shift. Yours, Officer Cook, was for six all too short years of tireless effort serving and steering the residents of Dade County with tranquility and liberty for all mankind. Never more quality from you and it's a shame and travesty the way your sacred and passionate life and career end on May 16, 1979, a day of solemn recognition and remembrance of a gentleman of gallantry whose light was the beacon of dedication. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 18, 2020
Your family, peers and nation have crowned your heroic achievements, Officer Cook, as all heroes who give their sacred lives of valor and virtue remain blessed as honored and dignified souls of unselfish character. That very fine virtue carried your life and Dade County career of service ushering a new day. Others who have taken over your watch, Officer Cook, do so carefully and most cautiously. Danger and bedlam still meanders around the corners and roads and they must approach each circumstance with a degree of calm yet concern. When peace and unity are blocked from entering an area we must pause and stay as rational as possible which you always did. Mettle and morals maintained, scruples and principles all validated and vigilant. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 18, 2020
With a regimen of relief, resolve, resiliency, reliability and resourcefulness, your faithfulness and untiring devotion to duty and stability, Officer Cook, was created to give Dade County an uplifting experience. You have to balance your goals,dreams, aspirations and above all priorities. The citizens whom you took an oath to protect come first. And they received first class, first rate and top notch leadership, determination and a motivated heart to patrol the streets with honesty,integrity and dignity to make an impression humbly speaking that has been rewarded all these decades later as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Goodwill and esteem to be cherished for generation after generation. No one will forget your sweet and wonderful manner. Such a fine human being doing what you always dreamed of becoming all willingly and your parents may they rest in peace raised a fine son and a fine daughter with character and politeness.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 18, 2020
It's said that when one officer dies doing their job it's as if any entire department fell too. Yours, Officer Cook, has honored a kind young man who graced Dade County with all the most blessed acumen, vision and wisdom embracing your beyond the crowd maturity. It helped to reign in evil and deliver a semblance of goodwill,hope and stability to a community expecting serenity and freedom to move about. With your humble character the jobs were deemed as done and a safer shelter for your soul and spirit, Officer Cook, was made in heaven for your angelic wings fitted perfectly for you to soar like an eagle. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 18, 2020
That tragic day that intersection where you gave your most humblest of sacrifices on behalf of Dade County was filled surely with God's loving embraces as he called a most faithful honest and supremely diligent servant home. Where all angels of valor, virtue and integrity continue watching over their families. Yours my neighbor, friend and hero remembers your admiration, respect and abounding light shed upon our sacred land. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 18, 2020
Your life of public service, Officer Cook, has been paid homage and solemnly saluted for everything proper with honesty,dignity and integrity. You poured and gave your labors of love back to the people of Dade County becoming their hero and of course, your family's. No one your peers, no one will forget the imparting and implanting of safety and wisdom within its streets where danger lurked. God has your humanely loyal soul to keep watching over His pearly gates. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 18, 2020
Bold and humble. Beloved and humbly admired. Respected and reverent in wisdom,vision and maturity. You were such a driving force here in Dade County, Officer Cook. A man of many characteristics. Honest. Loyal and dependable. Fair yet firm. Possessed dignity and integrity that engaged, enriched and endeared itself to the entire community where you defended,battled and fought against the very wickedness that stole your life and career. Took a bright and beautiful heart and soul away from your loved ones to now forever treasure the memories. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 18, 2020
Evil poses its adversarial problems that can complicate the completion of the job at hand to expel its violence from our society. Dade County was under your honorable and heroic direction, Officer Cook, always a man of polish and poise, promise and perseverance, firm and never yielding one iota. If dignity and integrity, character and commitment were to be rudely interrupted then humanity would certainly struggle to obtain its rightful and trusted existence. You did everything you could that sad day, Officer Cook, God's compassion transported your heart and soul of humility and esteem to His branches in heaven to continue your eternal tasks. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 18, 2020
Most men and women serve righteously some others, a few stray from the path and must be removed from their posts and taken away from the very streets they preserve. Integrity, dignity and honesty must be properly aligned and installed. Nothing left half undone. The jobs must be completed properly as you demonstrated so skillfully and heroically on behalf of Dade County and society in general, Officer Cook. God has enhanced your wings of praise and blessed your acumen and astuteness that you'll always be eternally rewarded for tireless effort and unselfish sacrifice in the line of obligation. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. In a previous reflection I apologize as I was never comparing you or any diligent public servant to a monkey. The way some police act an animal would be inclined to behave better and that is surely sad terribly tragic as ruination would run rampant. Cannot have that occur ever. The streets deserve respectful representation forevermore. Keep watching your family and the entire world from the best seat above. No obstructed views.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 17, 2020
A final resting place is that eternal source where you can ponder and think back about your honored and brave loved one. For always and forever, Officer Cook,may God grant perfect slumber to your soul and heart of wisdom, esteem and the vision that validated your humble virtue and maturity beyond your years. Dade County for a quarter of your life was promised peace and stability and they received so much more from your generous and most engaging character, dedication and dignity. The battles were fought. The paths blazed for others to follow in. Truth and trust were more than your yearning. Now they come hand and hand as one of Our Creator's many admired and revered angels. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 17, 2020
There is only one God in whom we place our sacred trust. He leads, directs and fulfills whatever we may seek. Destinies and journeys all designated with a specific purpose in mind. Yours, Officer Cook, were to honorably serve Dade County and with a gusto, grit and gumption you performed your official professional duties as all who walk the streets of serenity so we pray. Goodwill and dignity were spread out your area as a cornerstone to be fondly and solemnly saluted for we know heaven contains your spirit and soul of decency soaring above your beloved family and esteemed colleagues of truth and justice. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 17, 2020
Another major holiday is about to occur and with it of course comes all of the memories of you, Officer Cook and while your family sits down to bless its bounty, "Uncle Bo" will forever marinate in their thoughts and hearts. You were their hero of honesty and the intellect of integrity and the dignity of having composed character while duly watching over Dade County. Its people can bless a truly faithful and a most sincere gentleman who displayed and demonstrated the finer actions of sanctity and nobility to be admired for generation after generation. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero. You were the epitome of virtue and valor, walking class in uniform, badge and charisma.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 17, 2020
One thing for certain, Officer Cook and that is no one had to call out the cavalry for you. For as a loving and honest servant of God and Dade County, your humility and heart all rested within the wings of your esteemed hope, courage and dignity to translate your missions of integrity into an even more fertile peace. Everything being on the table was transferred to your cherished patrols of a community that has given you back the respect and sincerity due a hero. Our security and lives were richly enhanced on the basis of your unrelenting boldness and mettle so instrumental to creating that forever bonds within the guises of mankind. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 17, 2020
Society is like a wilderness at times. Things moving so rapidly and mankind struggles to catch its breath. Police are always on the go looking to restore and resolve any conflict, issues, problems and dilemmas that may crop up. You best feet, arms,eyes and ears of honesty, humility and dignity, Officer Cook, were directed within integrity's pathways to produce a truthful,trusted and an everlasting serenity for Dade County and its fine citizens. A gentleman so gallant and do fiercely determined to stamp out crime. Such unadulterated evil should not have taken your young life of prosperity, health and happiness when it did and yet I'm sure your family knows this was the trail you so desired since you were a young boy. You channeled and championed the causes and purposes for which humanity is deeply indebted to your sincerest of sacred and most heroic services. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 17, 2020
Monkeys crave bananas. Citizens desire tranquility. Mankind relishes its safe trails for its people to journey through. To accommodate that you had to have the right stuff so to speak, Officer Cook. Through and true, clearly a man of valor and vision, whose wisdom and maturity tapped newer lines of learning and preparing. Dade County was provided outstanding sources of humility,honesty, reverence and the dignity to battle adversity one way straight ahead face to face. From one branch to another branch the wars rage on today with your spirit looking down on your successors and praying they stay safe and come home in peace.Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. By the way being creatures of habit monkeys are intelligent and you were the consummate public servant of information and true devotion. Always the people first!
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 17, 2020
To uplift, uproot and to hopefully enhance the balance of nature you had to be so true to form and character, Officer Cook. Fighting and battling with a full heart and humbly honored soul takes every bit of integrity and dignity despite all the peril that lies on the streets where you gave every effort to Dade County, so outstanding and so truthful never to be overlooked and certainly your heroic legend stands as that mantra forever. Morals, principles and the quality of scruples applied humanely at all moments. Precision and direction take a total team effort to accomplish bringing the stabilizing harmony to a community and given by a solemn angel. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 17, 2020
The tranquility is the nobility of civilization and its sanctity must not be tampered nor toyed with. Stability must not be stomped upon nor can disrespect tarnish a neighborhood. So true and trusted, Officer Cook, you personally made you crusades of charm and charisma about the folks here in Dade County and society can pause and reflect back on your life and career of character and a smile. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 17, 2020
Transparency can tout its tenacity through any given region. Any venue, any community so long as those who stay the courses of honesty, intellect and integrity are both dignified and show proper conduct in all their driven endeavors that mankind bestows upon their hearts and souls. Yours, Officer Cook, was heroic and crystal clear in its never yielding approaches to resolving conflicts. Our inner peace and harmony was delivered by a man of genuine intuition and ingenuity that will forever be saluted. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 17, 2020
Discipline and devotion are faith's ways to achievement. Of course though honesty, integrity and strength of both dignity and humility they can make all the difference to any outcome. Violence and wickedness look to take the hinges off of the doors of quiet and by being a sound man, Officer Cook, Dade County was able to be served by your unrelenting instincts of character and valor. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero. Your family and department's forever guardian angel.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 17, 2020
The echoes still are being felt long after you served and protected Dade County with reverent honor, wisdom and heroic humility, Officer Cook. Never forgotten for being a man of faith and unyielding dignity and unselfish integrity. Our harmony and stability came about through constant character, tireless commitments to excellence and pride and passionate convictions where trust and truth measured up to the likes of evil. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero. An angel so resourceful and respected by humanity.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
November 17, 2020
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