Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida
End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979
Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook
From birth to your tragic death in the line of duty, your life and police career with Dade County, Officer Cook, will be remembered as being quite special. A soul of a man who served as a hero and kept honor and reverence right where integrity and dignity ought to be. Violence and evil were handled all in an expeditiously manner by a supreme public servant whose scruples and ideals fit with what society needs in terms of peace and satisfaction. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 4, 2020
The entourage of effort and efficiency never escaped your humane and humbly heroic honesty, Officer Cook. A Dade County legend of character and conviction whose fortitude and ferocity always maintained with your integrity and dignified perseverance. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 4, 2020
Pity the fool who thinks those who commit crime won't be caught and tried. You can run and hide, you'll never elude the authorities of acumen and resolve. Your basic tents of faith, Officer Cook, were to remain loyal and honest, have a basic dignity and integrity surrounding your excellent character and maintain trust and truth as a facet of your ferocity. Dade County and its people surely miss your presence and know God's kingdom has the keys to your kindness and general principles of courtesy and valor. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your soul won't accept failure as normalcy! Ever! Keep looking down upon your loved ones and colleagues who wage war over this wanton turmoil.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 3, 2020
Indocturnation takes time. Violence does not waste time and neither can any worthy men and women of valor and honesty. Your integrity and ingenuity were reserved, Officer Cook, just for this moment to try and seize this monster from our beings. Your sweet soul and caring heart did all the tasks and responsibilities properly the first time never needing any admonishing. You'll continue to be heroically saluted and blessed by God for compassion and unselfish character. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 3, 2020
It was a hot day in Dade County the afternoon of May 16, 1979 and a day never to be overlooked nor forgotten. Your life and career, Officer Cook, defending, securing and providing goodwill and a resurgence of stability and harmony won't ever go down without a fight until the end. Engineering effort and efficiency, incorporating morals and character, having a heroic and humble honor within your soul meant that distinct difference in the climates of your courage and convictions. Heaven has your perfect soul of loyalty trying to counteract the adversity that spills too far in mankind's dreams and aspirations. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Mr. Pearsall should have learned his manners way before that fateful day.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 3, 2020
Blessings for the bold, hold weight if their bravery and honor are on par with dignity and integrity. You fought those battles here in Dade County, Officer Cook, always putting your heart and soul where the goodwill and faith of Our Lord reaches out to us. When in jeopardy there you were to answer a call you were dispatched over and over during your six years of sacred and most productive endeavors. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 3, 2020
Cooperation takes the courage of heart to command and lead other men and women through trying times. Your honesty, integrity and character, Officer Cook, assisted your dignity through those perilous streets of Dade County offering peace and goodwill to its folks. Badge#1664 was most heroic, most astute and most civilized during your days of keeping terror away from us. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 3, 2020
You had wit, Officer Cook, as wise as an owl. Couple your character, dignity and respect for mankind, you'll forever be remembered and so saluted as a Dade County hero of integrity and remain cherished for pursuing peace and liberty for its citizens. Evil and violence are the subjects all public servants humble and esteem follow after. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 3, 2020
Courage, charm and compassion are never in cruise control. On the contrary when you patrolled the perimeters of Dade County, Officer Cook. They went full speed ahead to shield the residents from any undue harm and danger. A blessed and most heroic warrior, those vitality and diligence was that humble screen of your undying and surely unwavering virtue. The heavens are filled with nearly twenty-four-thousand heroes and heroes and certainly God's giant edifice is replete with grit, gallantry and splendor. It is all about the character and the missions, journeys and trails paved and blazed by the past men, women and the future public servants who sacrifice their beings for not only boldness and bravery but for esteem and legacies to be shared, saluted and remembered solemnly for endeavor. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 2, 2020
What life and liberty are to each other, so too are honesty and heroism. Those broad shoulders of yours, Officer Cook, held integrity and dignity very tightly are you were aggressively defending Dade County citizens. You won't be forgotten, rather you'll be poignantly honored and remembered for embracing the system and demographics of your community where you grew up and served very faithfully, truthfully and as a most humanely trustworthy angel of wisdom and versatility. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 2, 2020
Packages come in all sizes and shapes. Perseverance, proficiency and resolve come just one way through honor, dignity and pure integrity. Dade County was humbled by your everlasting heroism, Officer Cook and you'll not be overlooked. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Character and charm are separate issues. But, sincerity and having that distant passion was your forever legacy that has been passed down to your beloved family to cheerfully carry on with your soul watching over them. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.Dignity and integrity are soaring in sanctity every second.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 2, 2020
Illuminating and one man of wisdom and vision well versed in virtue and soaked in honorable vigilance. Dade County does not forget its heroes and heroines of faithfulness, loyalty and esteem of which you maintained your whole life, Officer Cook. you displayed character, commitment and truthful conviction while donning your uniform of humbleness. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 2, 2020
Intuition takes a mind of mettle and morals to be able to handle the challenges of service and preservation. The people of Dade County had your gentle compassion and courage, Officer Cook, protecting their needs. All the integrity and dignity to fight off the nastiness of evil. You are a hero, Officer Cook and one man whose crusades are never to be forgotten. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 2, 2020
Sheer ingenuity and grit carried you, Officer Cook, throughout your Dade County police career and a heroic life of humility and honesty. You remain cherished and most humane in those whom you loyally served. Tranquility through your unselfish tenacity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 2, 2020
School educates one's mind. Enhancement and enrichment fill our souls with joy and pleasure. You planted those seeds of serenity within the venues of Dade County forevermore. Our peace and goodwill came at a terrible price, your life of honor, character and relevant good nature, integrity and dignity always composed during those perilous of times. Heroic and saluted for valor of the first class. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 2, 2020
Reverence and desire take honesty, integrity and dignity down those roads where resolve and respect travel. Your career and life, Officer Cook, protecting Dade County will not be forgotten as you had unassuming and most humbly heroic character. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Charismatic and with a great smile now incorporated within God's greatest of angels.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 2, 2020
The toll of effort is expended to relieve the terror that threatens the serene pursuits of a united society. Your best feet forward from a truthful and heroically trustworthy gentleman, Officer Cook. We solemnly honor your memory, career and life of loyalty, dignity and integrity that helped to branch out your messages of boldness, bravery and conclusive character. Dade County is less safe since your sacrifice and yet your shining legacy illuminates and entire world still filled with chaos and bedlam. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 1, 2020
Whatever was required, demanded and expected of you, Officer Cook, you came through fittingly with flying ferocity and honorable tenacity. Always giving Dade County standard heroism and integrity that has forever formed those bridges of boldness and trust so essential to peace and harmony being an everlasting classical part of a humane and civil community. You won't be forgotten ever! Your legacy establishes that common thread among all who ever have served and continue seizing upon the opportunities given to make cornerstones more clear. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 1, 2020
Your badge on your uniform, Officer Cook, was your good name and nature as it served Dade County with the love and affection you funneled into society. Mankind yearns for honest and hard working individuals and you gave every ounce of your heart and soul to make peace relevant once more. Always caring and dignified and a gentleman of wit and integrity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Heroes and heroines have their genes of valor enhanced within God's perfect house of commitments to pride and excellence.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 1, 2020
The gallant pursue their aspirations of finding that safety net and bringing it to mankind. Your heroic and honored trails, Officer Cook, secured and saved the people of Dade County from much worse evil that day you gave your life and everyday. With sterling character and stellar achievements your blessed soul will forever shine on in heaven where Our Master praises your patience and crystal clear wisdom. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 1, 2020
Class breeds humility. Honor breeds dignity. Integrity is what breeds trust and puts truth within those lips of duly dedicated public servants such as yourself, Officer Cook. A Dade County hero of goodwill, faithfulness and the virtues of acumen that followed your paths of perseverance during your decorated life and career of distinction. Truly a man of character and charm whose smile lighted up every room where your resolve ranged and the venues where your vigilance validated your leadership and motivational skills of vision. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 1, 2020
Being esteemed and respected is always commendable so long as honorable endeavor, dignity and integrity that channel professionalism into all your missions and journeys that you undertook, Officer Cook, on behalf of Dade County's residents. You took a solemn oath to protect and to serve with loyalty and the foundations that govern each different police department. You'll forever be revered and held in high regard for delivering the essentials of stability, civility and the sanctity of what unity represents. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 1, 2020
Principles, scruples and ideals pattern themselves after the humane and gentle surges of honesty, dignity and integrity. Everything must flow and be uniformly alike. Nothing but a first class officer, that you were, Officer Cook and you shall be fondly, solemnly and heroically remembered by all Dade County and humanity in general for your supreme service and sacrifice of outstanding character, consummate commitment and courageous convictions to blend unity along with serenity and sincerity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 1, 2020
We reflect sadly upon your life and career serving Dade County, Officer Cook, that was wantonly, unjustly and heinously taken. All the prayers and trust,the hope and faithful goodwill akin to our society. Your family and police family prayed like heck you would pull through. But, Our Creator had other more eternal plans for your soul and heart of heroic honor, determined dignity and integrity second to none. Nearly forty -one years after your untimely death doing your due diligence, you continue to be honored,saluted for valor and most rewarded for having a blessed name of sacred responsibility. The streets called for you, Officer Cook and badge#1664. No reminders were necessary just your smiling face and humble good nature. You sacrificed the most precious gift of all to stabilize peace and to utilize your legacy as a lesson for other worthwhile and humane officers. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
January 31, 2020
Your brave heart and lungs, Officer Cook, were humbly strong, honorably heroic and unwavering as you pursued peace and truth here in Dade County. So long as your soul and spirit remain alive, so too will your characteristic dignity and integrity. It fortified and only accentuated your trails of terror and wickedness. You pitched your tents of resolve and never gave up until your cemented stability and harmony within your community. You'll be respected and revered forever, Officer Cook, for bonding mankind and humanity with the fruits of happiness and success. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
January 31, 2020
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