Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida
End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979
Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook
Religion and faith are like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. You don't need both for for a sandwich, but, you need honesty, integrity and dignity to stand trustworthy, truthful and most resourceful during your everyday shift. Nothing less, all humility and heart made you a supreme hero here in Dade County, Officer Cook. You battled and fought until your last breath of boldness, bravery and character ran out. God took you and your family greatly misses you and your virtuously humane smile. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Somewhere above in those fruited plains is where your spirit and soul revolve around us watching over family,comrades and friends as they journey for hope, goodwill and some prospect of happiness.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 23, 2020
Firmness yields fairness and when placed where its affects will bring accomplishment you'll know you got the job done right. Neveran easy time defending us when despair wants to set in. But, you worked an toiled, Officer Cook, with every last ounce of energy and heart to dismiss evil from Dade County and its people. Honor, dignity and integrity always meshed so heroically to produce those humble results. Just that day after six years of loyalty and twenty-five years of life Our Lord needed your sweet and sacred soul and spirit back next to Him to be cradled and comforted. Eternal rest for a savior and a virtuous prince of perseverance. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 23, 2020
Those rods and reels of resolve once they are cast into the streets all must yield resilience, resolve and sure resourcefulness and all through your unwavering faith and spirit ofvirtue, Officer Cook, will you and your life protecting Dade County be solemnly remembered. Every chance taken was supported by loyalty, reverence and respect for society. A gentleman gracing God's heavens with all his trust and truthful missions undertaken and fulfilled in the Lord's eyes and ears of perfection. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 23, 2020
Fear is a healthy feeling but in police work it cannot go into left field leaving one with trepidation and fright. You'll surely remain highly regarded for posterity and all the dexterity, Officer Cook, in leading others during times of duress. Dade County witnessed true heroism and dignified respect all from a young man of hope and good nature to be surely paid homage for your life and humbleness. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 23, 2020
Putting a straight face into a situation that is difficult is what faith means to a servant of par excellence. Only the finest of ferocity filtered into dignity, integrity and humble honor. Dade County was certainly blessed by your structure of good character, fine morals and outstanding virtue, Officer Cook, which placed a semblance of tranquility back at those windows welcoming unity and prosperity. Never forgotten and always solemnly saluted for gallantry and sanctity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 23, 2020
Expedience only makes quicker the responses to peril and danger. As devoted and as honest as you always were, Officer Cook, so too could Dade County and its folks bask in the sunlight of serenity and hopeful goodwill. Your heroic intuition, intelligence and integrity staved off more undue harm upon those wanting safe havens. A man of stellar and sterling character soaring as an angel higher every moment. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 23, 2020
A man of humility with an unselfish heart and soul serving Dade County with all his might and giving life and his career so that evil, violence and terror wouldbe permanently off the streets. Your honesty, integrity and dignity, Officer Cook, was most heroic and humane. Your family and colleagues will not forget your humble esteem, courage and loyalty. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 23, 2020
The papers said it all. A loyal soldier gave his soul so our hearts could beat furthermore. Yes, Officer Cook, your unassuming dignity and valor were exposed here in Dade County to assist your comrades in stopping one wayward and sinister young man. A man whose had a girlfriend and I believe a child. An individual who lived with three generations of family and who should have valued respect, honor and integrity as you certainly did. You and Nancy were both raised with values, mettle and proper conduct. No man can get married to a wonderful wife you had for four all too short years of sacred bounty to Karen, without these traits. So humble and humanely valiant, yet beneath it all heart and soul functioning to both protect and serve as one entity. You'll be fondly, stoically and solemnly saluted for grace and composure under pressure and be thought of as your family's own heroic warrior. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 22, 2020
A most beautiful and humble caption for you, Officer Cook, "He was humbly honest and gave his life for his community and comrades to continue their fights for freedom while living their hopes and dreams." Yours too, Officer Cook, a Dade County hero whose legacy stands tall and reaches far beyond the plains of heaven. A heart and soul whose dignity and integrity made your character more sincere and trusted than evermore. So much affectional pride and excelling deep within the confines of where evil creates that unbearable torment and turmoil that confounds and confuses mankind at moments of happiness and pleasure. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 22, 2020
Nine years from now it will be fifty years since you left this world defending us and your loved ones from all this seemingly perpetual violence. An event that rocked mankind that fatefully traumatic day of May 16, 1979, when you gave the ultimate sacrifice of honesty, integrity and dignity to permit Dade County to live and to breath more freely. Wonderful integrity. Welcomed morals. Dignity, respectful character all gained by earning your lot and for reverence of your parents and sister. My Nancy and her family, Officer Cook, live and be well as your heart, soul and spirit rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero along side of your beloved folks. God really has those foundations and firmly implanted cornerstones cradled in His loving arms for love and safety. Eternity has all the accountability, visibility, durability, capability and responsible versatility never ending. Only welcomed and treasured forevermore.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 22, 2020
All facts of a case must be truthfully dealt with and the hope of sincere resolution must be near. They all trump fiction, fallacy and anything not closely tied to law and order. Officer Cook, you were an honorable young man whose values, views and vision have always been remembered as the knots to Dade County being treated and served with heartfelt fairness and justice that brought hope and good cheer to its residents. For certain your dignity, character and integrity have been absent yet they remain closely imbued within your family's missions of peace, prosperity good health and a brighter future because of your unwavering and unselfish loyalty to peers, brave and persevering. Things hopefully will get clearer as your heroic legacy watches over them and society in general. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 22, 2020
All else need not fail. For during trying times of terror all excellent public servants stand ready for the challenges that confront humanity. Humility and heart were your borders of strength and boldness that's for sure, Officer Cook. A model citizen and a professional law abiding officer whose reputation and cherished name preceded you and your missions of goodwill, hope and faithfulness. Dade County misses its beloved heroes and so does their loved ones. Your shrine of sincerity rests in peace my neighbor, friend and hero in the blue skies above where you'll always share a front row seat with other angels, the flock of ferocity patrolling those pearliest of venues for eternity.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 22, 2020
The gardens of heaven are enhanced by loyal and humble angels of valor and truth. Their versatility and heroic virtue stood loud and most certainly crystal clear. Your uniform and represented all Dade County and the entire police nation, Officer Cook. A man of fairness, but firm and so loyal in those wars over wickedness. You can be perfectly clear that honor, integrity and dignity were the instruments used to gain our freedoms and securities. Never forgotten and proudly saluted for attitude, fortitude and all the wrappings of wisdom, vision and clarity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 22, 2020
Follow a leader, you'll find his principles and conduct to be consistent in honesty and the virtues of both integrity and dignity. So much of it given kindly to Dade County citizens, Officer Cook, today and everyday to be solemnly, humbly and sacredly paid attentive honor. Our freedoms and unity were all because of your tireless welcomed efforts to keep boldness intact and the beasts of wickedness off the pavements. A solid human being missed daily by his family, esteemed comrades of humility and valor, his close friends who knew a righteous individual when they ran into him. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 22, 2020
Lessons to be learned, embellishment to be emulated when matters of severe urgency strike an area hard and fast. Police work is fast and furious snails can keep up. You worked and toiled for humbly honorable outcomes in and around Dade County, Officer Cook. You surely left your heart and soul on those dangerous streets along with your dignity and integrity being honored and embraced as the people and your colleagues said farewell to you as you went to heaven to begin your angelic journeys where eternity is precise and your guarding the gates won't bring harm to you ever again. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 22, 2020
Both young and older heroes and heroines live by one creed and that is to be honest and dignified, to maintain a system of values and to possess forever integrity that may lessen your onuses fighting evil. Dade County was your community you called home, Officer Cook, a venue that was your avenue of virtue and vigilance. A place where your dedication was totally located along with respectful trust, truthful character and never ending unselfishness always treasured. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 22, 2020
Formality is ferocity directed at evil. Your tenaciousness, Officer Cook, was all out attacks to stop this unrelenting sphere of serious mayhem all by one man acting cold and callous. You'll be fondly remembered and saluted for esteemed bravery, humane honor and the determination of one whose dignity and integrity was always composed and confident. Dade County was safely maned by your virtue and versatile mettle and scruples of wisdom and maturity beyond your young life. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 22, 2020
You were one of Our Creator's many humble servants and protectors. Dade County has very much missed out on your pleasing smile, passionate ways, honesty and sincerity of both integrity and dignity, Officer Cook. The hero in humanity standing tall against an onslaught of violence and never backing down. Your heart, soul and spirit all forever blessed and rewarded as an angel of valor. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 22, 2020
Scruples and sincerity lend their credence to battling evil. Your honor, reverence, dignity and integrity, Officer Cook, brought heroic humility to all living in Dade County. A gentleman of goodwill and excellent character never forgotten and only saluted for wisdom, enhancement and vision. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 22, 2020
Reading only brings intelligence. Integrity and respect deliver honor and reverence. Officer Cook, your sincerity brought about fondness and good cheer. With a bright and warm smile, you will be sure not to be overlooked. Dade County was aided and served by a loyal and desirable man of faith and desirable decency. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 21, 2020
You can ask questions. The rationale must be present. it must be accountable to deal with whatever crosses between you and the public. You stood proud, Officer Cook, heroic and honorable, dignified to shelter Dade County citizens in tranquility. Your humble goodwill, hope and nature shall be fondly remembered and solemnly saluted. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Class and resilience sleep humbly in God's gardens of gallantry.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 21, 2020
Police works is a profession where your afformation must mean something. And yet there are no
guarantees that each day will be simple and free of trouble. Sometimes a hornet's nest of callousness must be handled with dignity, integrity and the honesty that humanity craves for. Your years serving Dade County, Officer Cook, will be the standard that all who wear a badge and uniform must be relied upon and absolutely one to take a bull by the horns. Heaven has your unassuming and tireless character to cradle in its palms. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 21, 2020
Problems require certain conduct and principles that often protect the privacy of the people. You did your part, Officer Cook, exceedingly well. Excellence in manners. Faithful in integrity and dignity. Humble, humane and heroic heroism that gave Dade County an opportunity to live freer. Never a more respectful and cherished individual of boldness and absolute acumen. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 21, 2020
What lies between sunrise and sunset is the hot sun of another wise bright afternoon which it was the day you gave the ultimate price on behalf of Dade County, Officer Cook. A man devoted to his family, department and community where you continued being paid homage and respect fordemonstrating deserving honor, integrity and dignity. Humanity should honor character and resolve. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your wisdom, civility and vision remain legendary.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 21, 2020
Crime always never picks its time to terrorize and torment mankind. Your career and life of dignity, integrity and honesty, Officer Cook, was the perfect mixture to combat mayhem and mischief in Dade County in turn threatens our prosperity and harmony. A humbly heroic man of nature and adventure relishing his trusted and sacred roles responding to calls of duty. Never forgotten and saluted forevermore. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 21, 2020
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