Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida
End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979
Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook
You speak softly and carry humility steadfastly in your heart and soul. Badge#1664 carried effort and dignity around Dade County with gusto and a passion like no other. You fared quite well, Officer Cook, always a hero of resolve and integrity gentle and fair touching hearts and minds never to be forgotten. The baton seems to be weighted down a bit but after a while things hopefully will be on the uptick. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Character, commitment and conviction keep the golden streets and pearly gates propped open forevermore.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 8, 2020
Stepping into a bear trap can surely hurt. If humanity could catch all the crime and evil with these traps I don't think everything would abate just yet. But, as long as good public servants honest and valiant as you were, Officer Cook, continue pursuing the trails of law and order perhaps Dade County can outlast this infamy of wickedness. For class, decency and reverence may God bless and provide comfort to all who mourned your tragic loss and continue to humbly heal the gaping holes left by your absence. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 8, 2020
An essential part of any job is honesty and surely integrity coupling with resourceful dignity to quash those fires of evil. You certainly acquitted yourself, Officer Cook, very well on Dade County's behalf. harmony, liberty and some unity that can overcome the very obstacles of senseless terror which you tried to stopped the day you made the supreme sacrifice not to be forgotten, only saluted for its dedication and fiercely loyal determination. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 8, 2020
Crisp,clear and pristine. So honorable and heroic and that was your adoring presence, Officer Cook,here in Dade County where over forty-three years ago you began a dutiful career serving your community. You were definitely well read and well breed in character, respect, dignity and integrity which fortified your trails of justice, peace and truthful trust never more outstanding and especially on May 16,1979, when society witnessed your final feats of bravery and now you soar as an angel. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 8, 2020
Accidents are just that. Callousness and heinousness are not that and are not incidents to be wiped up and forgotten. On the contrary, they are to be received and duly noted and respectfully saluted for their honor,their breath of dignity and integrity, yours, Officer Cook, have never been more accepted and so poignantly honored for their purpose in life, devotion to uplift Dade County's citizens and their prospects for peace and liberty. Badge#1664 will never be tarnished nor overlooked for its virtue, visibility and durability to aid others through peril or worse. So God fearing and relevant. You are missed very much my neighbor, friend and hero. Rest in peace.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 7, 2020
Courage, bravery and gallantry are all your borders of boldness and esteem. If you honor, dignity and integrity is centered, focused and forthright all else should be a bit easier when you patrol your areas of responsibility. Dade County was your onus, Officer Cook, heroically placed upon your road maps of resolve and resiliency. A uniform and a badge polished just as its wearer, a man of desire and noble causes whose passions led you to become an excellent servant of society and whose wings now allow you to soar for eternity and may your name and humility be rewarded and forever cherished. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 7, 2020
The ink on the paper dries faster than you can imagine. The evil permeates quicker than a blink of an eye. Your reaction and responses, Officer Cook, all decent, honest and heroic lead Dade County into a new day and age. Integrity, dignity and humility are for authentic leaders and not to be dishonored, disrespected and demeaned. Your colleagues who toiled and worked along side of you have not forgotten their friend and brother who departed this earth all too early. You certainly had more left to fulfill. Our Creator needed your inspirational wisdom,vision and maturity in His nests of perfection to groom and to welcome those who too made the ultimate sacrifice. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 7, 2020
A hand slaps. A belt bruises one's skin. Torment, turmoil and evil do more than just touch the surface. They humiliate society. They embarrass humanity. They just whip the heck out of integrity, dignity and one's self composed honor. You did your finest job, Officer Cook, not only on May 16,1979, but, everyday of your six years of loyal and treasured service receiving Dade County and its community into your family with loving arms. The eyes and ears, the feet and lips, so truthful, faithful and most trustworthy. A legacy that soundly and humbly constructed cornerstones for a sounder and a more serener future. One that would have been more stellar if God had allowed you to live on and to enjoy the fruits of your labors. Sacrifice means a purpose and bravery means more than just refined character, commitments and convictions. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 7, 2020
Earthquakes shake our very foundations of peace and delicate unity. Evil and terror set off more harm than good and for being recognized for honesty, excelling in your chosen profession, Officer Cook, Dade County remembers, salutes and has your blessed soul,heart of heroics and integrity etched upon walls of honor where angels who gave their souls can be fully respected for their humane and unwavering efforts not to be overlooked nor forgotten by mankind. Sanctity, civility and nobility are too important to just glance at. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 7, 2020
For a life well lived and a career where you were duly honored and respected, Officer Cook, it will always bother me why side panels were not around during your watch. But, nonetheless, your hope and goodwill shielded Dade County residents from adverse harm. You were the consummate and loyal leader whose dedication, devotion and character was warmly greeted each and everyday. Humility, heart and heroism working their utmost to ward off the terrible sounds of violence. Keep looking down from your angelic perch of perseverance and valor. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.An inch, a quarter of an inch and who knows what the outcome might have been. I'll always be concerned when a public servant suffers harm or worse heaven forbid!
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 7, 2020
Don't complain, just comply when any vested officer gives you duly noted instructions. Save yourself a host of problems. Your actions that day, Officer Cook, permeated goodwill and a feeling of friendship within Dade County. Your community where humility and sacrifice lived and breathed and gave strength to a worried area. The weary and downtrodden all lifted by your enhancing goodwill and spirit of affection. Character and conviction cited as your courage and everlasting bonds of bravery. An angel with perfectly fitted wings to fly. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Honor and integrity keep God's gates of gallantry perpetually unlocked.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 6, 2020
Shape up or one must ship out. Stay in the honorable path and look to terminate terror. You, Officer Cook, were a first rate gentleman with a heart of passion, compassion and surely the bounds of boldness and efficiency and for this Dade County was preserved by honesty and dignity never allowing indifference to come between you and the public. You'll be solemnly honored and your memory etched within walls and hearts of all who knew a legend of humbleness. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 6, 2020
Reflexes are important in any manner of policing an area. Where conflict and strife stir up a hornet's net of trouble all brave and decent souls with a caring heart must engage evil and dismantle its parts of callousness. You acted in an outstanding fashion, Officer Cook and heroically honored your Creator by your dignified and resourcefulness all with stellar integrity forever remembered. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 6, 2020
Dade County was your springboard of serious intuition and intervention, Officer Cook. You were consummate in all your endeavors and possessed superior capabilities to face the everyday battles and grinds of a most demanding and challenging professional role. Our tranquility and unity was brought about by tireless resolve and the sacred purposes for which you lived and sacrificed your life for. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 6, 2020
Years of learning, all the yearning that any diligent servant takes on to tackle the energy of evil. Providing strength and durability, your feats of tenacity, Officer Cook, have been reverently saluted for their inspirational ideals and ingenuity. You were a man totally dedicated to the goodwill and good nature of Dade County and its folks. Always cherished and forever gratefully saluted for valor. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 6, 2020
A wonderful young man with virtue and humility, so honored by his fellow officers and family for serving Dade County.Peace and happiness were distributed by your integrity, goodwill and all the dignity that continues being heroically saluted. A great man, Officer Cook, so devoted and faithfully trusted. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 6, 2020
From the day your beautiful mother, Mrs. Julia Cook , conceived you, Officer Cook, may you my neighbor, friend and hero rest in peace along with your dad, Charles and your mom, the connection to greatness was born. Genuinely honest soul of a man with a giving heart of compassion and courage. Calculated dignity and always reliable integrity to extinguish those flames of wickedness throughout Dade County. A hero so aware of his community and so well versed in virtue and nobility. Your eternal life has been for forty-one years spent walking a perfect beat guarding the gates in heaven and so richly and fondly remembered.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 5, 2020
A broken arm or leg will lay you up. Nothing worse than a life taken so heinously and without reason. You were just performing your basic responsibilities in making Dade County and in making its people safer, Officer Cook. Once and for all this adversarial terror must quit and go away. It's tires the most savvy of men and women who devote themselves to the principles of peace and heroic character, staunchly loyal commitments and stellar reverence. Virtue that validates their angelic wings of welcomed relief. You won't be forgotten my neighbor, friend and hero. Rest in peace. Foundations of fruition and cornerstones of concern and consideration to be poignantly observed.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 5, 2020
The date is relevant. The circumstances pronounced. Your passion was spelled out, Officer Cook, exactly to the letters of the law. If a servant seeks peace they too must be that way. If honesty, integrity and dignity can resolve conflict the badge and uniform must represent such values. Never a doubt only the fact that God is watching over your spirit and soul, Officer Cook,heroism and humanity sharing duel roles as those who have taken your watch act accordingly as best as they should to create safe havens for all mankind. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 5, 2020
The columns of principles, scruples and virtue support those pillows of efficiency, effort and energy all made stronger by a modest dose of honor, integrity and dignity. Al admired, revered and respected by your comrades here in Dade County, Officer Cook,who worked beside a gentleman of class, decency and devotion to hope, faithfulness and goodwill. heaven has a sure angel so beloved and balanced with more than ample blessing and bravery as you soar higher each moment. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 5, 2020
You need a strong heart, a sound mind and a soul dedicated to honesty, integrity and dignity. There is no ingenuity without some applied intuition. Officer Cook, you were a most surely resourceful man, heroic and diligent in succeeding to release Dade County from the bonds of an evil man. You did everything to achieve a peaceful end and sadly you gave your esteem and unselfish character as a sacrifice to be fully etched and vigilantly saluted. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 5, 2020
A sadist reveals in their hideous ways. You were passionate and humanely heroic, Officer Cook, in defending Dade County from some unworthy individuals. Never more ferocity and respect present along with your unwavering integrity and dignity so devoted to the practical causes of tranquility. Humanity greatly misses you and your heroic sanctity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 5, 2020
At times police are at the mercy of mad people who commit all sorts of violent acts. You were honorable and humbly composed, Officer Cook, when you attended to your daily posts in protecting and in unifying Dade County against such mannerisms. You'll never be more saluted for demonstrating perpetual virtue, vision, dignity and integrity all from trustworthy and true character. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 5, 2020
Lambs are gentle creatures who were placed here by Our Master of perfection and compassion. A revered man with acumen and strength of character, conviction and all commitments to excellence and pride never absent, you surely have been greatly missed, Officer Cook,by everyone. Such a prized gentleman focused on helping Dade County from its grief and wounds caused by unrelenting evil.No two ways about it, if truth and trust can revive a soul right this moment, your family would certainly be joyful in seeing you smile. Now for eternity your next task at hand is to guard and patrol those beacons of light gallantly bouncing off those holy gates. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 4, 2020
Our minds and hearts must never be lacking the oxygen to breathe and to function properly. Your being, Officer Cook, most notably your honored versatility, capacity to yearn and to comprehend the gravity of the circumstances at hand made you the leader your department was searching for. Integrity, dignity and character cannot ever be scarce.And nor was fear in your package of humility, truth and trusted belief. A faithful man delivering upon his sole bonds of affirmation. Such refined and noble speech all Dade County cupped its ears to listen. calming with a soothing voice of cadence and sanctity to be forever measured and solemnly remembered. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 4, 2020
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