Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida
End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979
Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook
Miami is a perfect place where tourists enjoy the sun and sights. It was a venue where your vehicles to accomplishment came from virtue and valor, so vigilant and honored. A gentleman of principles, scruples and the kind of humility that makes integrity and dignity so valuable to ingenuity and intuition. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero. Your legacy of heroism, Officer Cook, has been and always will be saluted and gratefully appreciated.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 13, 2020
The world and Dade County is deeply indebted you , Officer Cook, for heroism and honor. It delivered the proper amount of acumen and whatever was needed for your community to thrive peacefully. Success breeds just that and truth and trust come from one's own humble heart of dignity and integrity all utilized to battle adversity. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 13, 2020
If resolve, resiliency and resourcefulness are registered and ready to patrol a community then your honesty, integrity and dignity can make all the difference as yours, Officer Cook, did to combat evil on behalf of Dade County where your life and career have been held forever in the highest of regards. An angel with wings that now guard heaven's terrains. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 13, 2020
Your life and years, Officer Cook, were submitted only to honesty, integrity and dignity. They all support the missions of its heroes and heroines. You were a gentleman and a scholar so embedded in learning your profession and what it requires to deliver the wares of serenity, safety and security as you brought to the people of Dade County. So relevant and authentic, time never will diminish your efforts and ultimate sacrifice on behalf of society. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 13, 2020
Police cannot be porous in their daily perseverance and neither can they lack any vehicle to bring about stability and tranquility within any community. You were persuasive and passionate in all your God given abilities, Officer Cook,never letting Dade County's folks down. Just practical sense of direction and all the honesty,integrity and dignity that can absorb blows from evil. Your badge and uniform were donned with pristine class and noble character. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Angels soar in heaven and are never out of Our Creator's sight.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 12, 2020
Serenely and humbly rewarded and blessed for you life and career achievements that validated your youth, heart of wisdom and mind so thoughtful and dignified. values,ideals and principles will certainly inspire an individual to climb that ladder to newer heights as you so faithfully did for Dade County, Officer Cook. A hero forever instrumental in its freedom. liberties and health, prosperity and hope. Nobility and civility all coming together to serve,save and preserve the quality of why we must persevere. God's blueprints mean something and wavering and laziness are not part of the daily program we must stand up and help one another as you so valiantly did. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 12, 2020
Your honorable and most humble of heroic actions that day so tragic and terrible proved once again a man's fighting resolve, your integrity, commitment and character beyond any shadow of doubt proved ingenuity and dignity all rested in your most blessed heart, Officer Cook and Dade County's residents thank you from the bottom of theirs. Your colleagues who were in dire peril witnessed their loyal comrade and trusted friend coming to their aid and preserving their lives and of those where you placed down your cornerstones of courage and foundations of ferocity to shield a community from more intense violence. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero. Sanctity and humanity appreciated your forthcoming and always present humility channeled and dialed in. So treasured and trustworthy.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 12, 2020
Wise women and men listen exactly and then ask the tough questions. Your travels, trails and pathways to accomplishment were surely filled with God's golden gems of infinite knowledge and acumen, Officer Cook. Dade County was nobly protected by a man whose devoutness and faithfulness remains everlasting, generation after generation will see what honor, integrity and character all bring to those tables and scales of justice prevailing. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Respect, reverence and resourcefulness demonstrate a resiliency to amaze.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 12, 2020
The glow of the sun, the rays of the its brightness all shined down on you, Officer Cook and your adoring family. Such honesty, pride and humbleness which was bestowed upon you, your heart and soul. Such integrity and dignity all was needed to defend your community of Dade County against violence. You certainly acquitted yourself justly and with truth and trust all coming from your vision, wisdom and maturity. Nothing lacking, all elements of your character,commitment and noble convictions succinct and serene. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 12, 2020
Your life and years, Officer Cook, were submitted only to honesty, integrity and dignity. They all support the missions of its heroes and heroines. You were a gentleman and a scholar so embedded in learning your profession and what it requires to deliver the wares of serenity, safety and security as you brought to the people of Dade County. So relevant and authentic, time never will diminish your efforts and ultimate sacrifice on behalf of society. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 12, 2020
The train of tenacity left on its humblest, most blessed and heroic of journeys when you began your law enforcement career in Dade County, Officer Cook, back in 1973. So reliable, dependable and dignified, it was your consummate integrity,ingenuity and character that made you who you were. magnify morals and mettle, you arrive at respect, gallantry and humility personified, unwavering, unselfish and completely tireless energy from your caring heart of faith,hope and goodwill. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 12, 2020
Life and police work are not repeat not child's play. And pity the foolish who don't realize this. They make our lives safer and more constructive to ponder, to walk,run,bike or drive. It takes so much of everything, tools of the profession known to these brave heroes and heroines. Heart, honor,humility,soul and some gut searching character, courage and dignity all composed of integrity and humility which you steadfastly maintained throughout your twenty-five years, Officer Cook. So morally upright, heroic and surely most passionate of your work defending and protecting the goodness,goodwill and good graces of all Dade County,mankind and the sanctity of live so special just as your soul and virtue never to be forgotten. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero. You certainly enriched,engaged and enhanced as an inspiration to all.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 11, 2020
Tenacity never needs poking for all the ferocity was directed towards Dade County, Officer Cook, yours was real and honorably heroic. The dignity and integrity directed your circles in life and during your outstanding career one cut down too early by a man's evil disrespecting your humility and goodwill. Heart, soul and courage conceived in love and liberty for all mankind. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Character, commitment and class all sleep soundly stop God's peaks of perseverance and efficiency.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 11, 2020
The light of the menorah the Jewish people light at Chanukah is supposed to dispel the darkness of the sinister who commit serious violence and what not. Your smile,heart and soul, Officer Cook.lit up the universe and Dade County had its dignity and integrity brightened by your very versatility and virtue. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 11, 2020
A man whose journeys and missions spoke for themselves. The context of your courage, Officer Cook, was endless and certainly very much absent from your family and the world taken so shamelessly by a wanton man heinous and uncaring. The society has enough to cope with and for taking Dade County to a higher level may God bless and reward your aptitude, fortitude and unwavering integrity,dignity and morals. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your beloved family and peers won't forget the day or you, Officer Cook. You made everyone feel at ease and at home so to speak.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 11, 2020
One blessing, one reward, one humbly honored hero who cherished his position. Authority never getting to your head, Officer Cook, a most worthy gentleman who engaged and was unselfishly dignified and capped his integrity with durability and reliability. Dade County's folks treasured your career and life and for those sadly who did not personally know you, what a grand man who stood for everything good in society. Hope, faith and goodwill spread far and wide. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 11, 2020
See, hear and go after. It's found in heroes and in heroines where trust and truth does not lose its sight or balance. You went after evil, Officer Cook and certainly made Dade County more fit to live thought provoking lives. A display of enhancement and some character will always tip the scales of truth and justice favorably. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero. Serenity on earth created by you, Officer Cook,is eternity's blessing of an angel of bravery.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 11, 2020
Courtesy, politeness and kindness cannot be pulled from under the rug and be disrespected by those still inclined to commit whatever brazen acts are there to sadly conjure up. Your sense of direction, dignity and integrity, Officer Cook, were all heroic and honorable as you patrolled the streets of Dade County with understanding, humility and characteristic resolve to be sincerely etched and saluted forever. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 11, 2020
A stalwart and a man determined to rid evil from Dade County's midst, you always be honorably and heroically so saluted. It was drive and dedication that carried your uplifting and most outstanding character, dignity and the winds of integrity following your strings and trails of truthful searches, Officer Cook, for harmony and whatever the citizens need to live as composed as possible. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 11, 2020
Where truth is absent, trust also is missing in action. You never needed prodding, Officer Cook and you never needed motivation to push you along. Some men and women need extra prodding not cuddling. They are not babies but rather grown men and women with a heart, mind and knowledge to comprehend their consequences. Dade County expected and demanded defense and your cherished reverence and honor was for just that cause. A man born with dignity,integrity and commitments on his lips and in his heroic heart. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 10, 2020
Vague is not a valid meaning or purpose for performing a cause. A more worthy tool to solve and to resolve conflict is plain honesty, simple dignity and humble integrity for without these three items of ingenuity,intelligence and intuition one has nothing to begin those difficult fights and battles with. Adversity presents all kinds, all sorts of tumalt, terror and torment. Dade County never wanted you to be cut down, Officer Cook, losing your young and vibrant life while you were accomplishing a goal and that was to restore calm and order. Peace on earth is society's dreams coming to fruition. Your years and outstanding character do continue to shine on in Our Lord's celestial palace. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You never lost touch with reality and your humanely secure purposes.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 10, 2020
The gap between gallantry, gladness, grit and gumption is measured by one's own contained honesty, integrity and dignity as they mean all the difference in how situations play out in the end. Resolve, responsibility and accountability were always within reach of your truth and trust, Officer Cook, so heroic, humble and forever considerate. Dade County had a superior public servant, engaging, enriching and enhancing the spirit of his community so beloved and adored by mankind and your family. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 10, 2020
You arose, Officer Cook, to strike down adversity and pure evil. Your heart and soul so pious and persevering. Dade County was where your trails, paths and bridges to peace and prosperity reached out to the masses. A man with the rightful possessions of honor,integrity and reverent dignity all battling such terror and wickedness not to be put aside. Legacies are for the families, colleagues and friends to look back upon,review and offer prayers of humility for their sacred and desirable aspirations now for eternal inspirations for a brighter future with your angelic spirit looking down. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 10, 2020
Always a smile gladdening your heart, Officer Cook and your family's too. Dade County was under the youthfulness of your humanely peaceful resourcefulness all dispensed by dignity, integrity and focused scruples so sacred and humble. Heaven and its angels so perfectly made with wings with which to fly higher. You surely built cornerstones and foundations to last forever, a legacy soundly constructed by courage and candor. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. The holidays because of you and your folks not here anymore to join in the celebrations, though you'll always be in their hearts and thoughts. May you rest in peace Mr. and Mrs. Cook along with your beloved and darling heroic son. Faith and trust,truth and humility.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 10, 2020
Openness often leads to opportunity. The chance to make amends for a community wanting peaceful lives. Your goodwill, good decisions and joyful demeanor, Officer Cook, brought the safety and serenity Dade County so desired. A gentleman born and bred with morals and masterful character, convictions and the honesty that lends itself to one's heroic integrity and dignity forever cherished. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
December 10, 2020