Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida
End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979
Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook
Never vain. Only a train of tenacity and its cars of dignity, integrity and its most blessed honesty. What a man! so superb and beloved by all. Dade County, Officer Cook, will not forget you and your unassuming character and transparent trust sheltering and securing the public. Your heart and soul paid a dear price for freedom to abound. A cherished man indeed! Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 14, 2020
The correct environment must be sought and so our hearts must be focused and in the proper venue yearning to bemost vigilant, You were most diligent, Officer Cook and surely most honored and reserved in humbleness and in heroic actions. Dade County had had its reservations, when you patrolled its roads and corners, never a doubt. Badge#1664 was commitment, conviction and the navigations of never ending unselfishness. God rewards His tireless servants of servitude. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 14, 2020
Many display great strength of purpose, but great weakness of execution. The endeavor was there, Officer Cook. So too was the attitude and fortitude to transport all your earthly journeys of faith, goodwill and hope. Dade County witnessed first hand character punctuated by accentuated honesty, dignity and efficient integrity. It solves and resolves all in unison. To have a structured harmony you first need good old fashioned capable public servants girded in humility and heroism. Our Creator has His angels guarding the heavenly forts of truth and trust, precision for eternal safekeeping. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 14, 2020
We beam with pride when we are fulfilled and joyful. Yes, you can take pride when those seams of virtue spread these fabrics of ferocity within a given community. Dade County was splendidly protected by unwavering effort and undying loyalty, Officer Cook, yours to be sacred and solemnly saluted for all its graceful passions. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 14, 2020
Illogical emotions can allow us to be swayed from the normalcy of society. Terror and torment surely uproots goodwill and hope. You were the consummate man of valor, the gentleman of heroic honor, dignity and integrity all shared in character and candor used for Dade County's trips of happiness and enhancement. Your spirit, heart and soul, Officer Cook, were sacred and now continue to illuminate heaven's skies. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 14, 2020
The goal is to be safe, keep the public safe and to make it home safely. Hard very hard to accomplish given today's rash of unrelenting evil confounding mankind. Your life and profession, Officer Cook, was the result of a choice to make over forty some years ago. Today, you are honored, saluted and fondly remembered for everything decent with integrity, sanctity and civility. The peace and passion were restored in Dade County even though one man's violent actions caused your loss to family, friends and esteemed comrades. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Heaven is safer with your special and diligent soul watching over us.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 14, 2020
Figuring out your roles is finding a new lease on life. Everyday interspection takes place and when it occurs you know humility and honesty have reached your heart and soul. With a sharp mind and a natural born skillset, Officer Cook, you could begin a most promising career presrving life in Dade County. No short order. A rather big burden for a youngman with all the dressings of dignity, integrity and hope. We the people are thankful for humanity bestowing a brave man of class to answer the calls of resolve. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 14, 2020
Measure a person's heart and from there honesty, respect and their heroic commitments to character and integrity will shine through lighting up mankind. Your distinguished yourself by your feats of progress and acumen, Officer Cook. No doubt God right this second is blessing and rewarding your very sweet and virtuous soul of compassion. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Dade County was your field of dreams, inspirations and now as aspirations. Always so treasured and devout.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 14, 2020
Wisdom and vision are happy to greet each new day. Life is so full of challenges and tests you just never know what to expect. Policework demands excellence in every way, shape and form. Honor, respect, bravery and boldness surrounded by your unwavering integrity, dignity and loyalty, Officer Cook, defending the rights and resolve of the people you served proudly. Every moment whatever cornerstones you uncovered shall be solemnly saluted. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 14, 2020
Sometimes being mellow helps one deal with conflicts and their disputes. One has to have the right frame of mind to patrol the streets making them safer. Your career and heroic life, Officer Cook, will not be forgotten for what you meant to your family, colleagues and Dade County residents. Always a smile but more importantly honesty, integrity and dignity. All special and all virtue. Heroism from an adored and beloved angel of character, respect and humility. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 14, 2020
Evil falls into the wrong laps.Those princes and princesses of law and order use whatever training, planning and preparation to try and avert worse harm to a venue. Violence that sad day, Officer Cook, happened to a brilliant smile and beautiful soul whose convictions, commitments and character have forever remained cherished and revered. Dade County was protected and prospered during the six years that badge#1664 carried resolve, faithful pursuits and all your earthly missions with humility and a sacred reason. You did your job as well as dignity and integrity shuttled you from place to place. We pay homage to your life and career of intelligence and wisdom, vision and ingenuity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your parents get to see your spirit fulfilling God's eternal patrols of His gates of valor.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 14, 2020
Evil falls into the wrong laps.Those princes and princesses of law and order use whatever training, planning and preparation to try and avert worse harm to a venue. Violence that sad day, Officer Cook, happened to a brilliant smile and beautiful soul whose convictions, commitments and character have forever remained cherished and revered. Dade County was protected and prospered during the six years that badge#1664 carried resolve, faithful pursuits and all your earthly missions with humility and a sacred reason. You did your job as well as dignity and integrity shuttled you from place to place. We pay homage to your life and career of intelligence and wisdom, vision and ingenuity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your parents get to see your spirit fulfilling God's eternal patrols of His gates of valor.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 13, 2020
In baseball when a team is being routed and your bullpen is being taxed, there is a saying about taking one for the team. The pitcher stays in even after being pounded by the opposition. Yet, sacrifice and guiding strength of honesty, heart, dignity and integrity requires all heroes and heroines to dig deep. To come through when the chips are down. Adversity and danger are always going to be a living reality. Sometimes you can get through the ferocity of wickedness other moments tragedy strikes a community and you just have to unify to comfort those whose lives were lost in the battle. Your assurances and goodwill, Officer Cook, all heroic and total character that enabled Dade County's folks to succeed in a sharing of sanctity and civility. Your resourcefully faithful soul my neighbor, friend and hero marches upward as Our Creator sends peace and happiness in your family's directions in life and in their journeys. Rest in peace.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 13, 2020
Only engagement can drive out division. Being unified in your goals, passions and aspirations helps to alleviate the awful strains of serious trouble. You answered the call that tragic day in Liberty City, Officer Cook and forever cemented a bond within the walls of welcome relief in Dade County. A gentleman geared with gallantry and girded with a strong heart that extinguished those flames of turmoil. Never again will your family see you unfortunately and your humble heart and soul that filled the corners and streets with integrity, character and dignity has uplifted those dark clouds above. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 13, 2020
A little pull can bring in a great ship of honesty, diligence and the intuitions of ingenuity and integrity. Police officers all pull together each oftheir assigned communities to deter wickedness and replace it with common sense and a little security seeing that safety certainly makes missions and their purposes more meaningful. Everything for heaven's sake and God's revered name, Officer Cook. So heroic and so empowered to bring a sacred cause of passion to the profession. Always saluted and etched in Dade County police history for unwavering and unselfish endeavor. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. The fog waslifted by your resiliency and always considerate code of standards.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 13, 2020
Solutions, resolutions and facts all are different. Each has its very distinct definition. Society goes along searching for a fragrance of serenity and sanctity, while sanity suffers and in turn causes lapses in truth and falsehood. You were a truthful man, Officer Cook, with integrity and character that crushed bedlam and discovered the foundations of tranquility. All your burdens were handled with class, desire and the decency that drove your trails of justice. Never forgotten and saluted for heroism and candor. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 13, 2020
Humanity is prone to reach hasty conclusions. Your confidence, humble loyalty and heroically honored esteem, Officer Cook, shall be rememberedand revered for its essential journeys forevermore. Dade County could see the lights at the end of those tunnels of your dignified tenacity. Straight forward integrity incorporated your destinies where you located a virtue of vigilance and peace. A valiant gentleman gifted and equipped with grit and undying gumption. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 13, 2020
If the sky's the limit, then no doubt your ceiling, Officer Cook, was way above the pack of perseverance and the crowds of courage from within. A solemn man taking an affirmation to serve and protect his humble community of Dade County. A superlative effort with all honor, all intensity and never ending heroic dignity all balanced against each other. Your soul and spirit, Officer Cook, are observing your family as they continue your legacy of heroic missions. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 13, 2020
Good women and good men of honor, humility and esteem don't always get to finish what they started. Violence and wanton callousness get in the way of their strokes of serenity making peace tougher to stand the tests of time. Time, fate and destinies are all navigated and driven by God Himself. As a devout and righteous man, Officer Cook, you knew this and understood your obligations centered and focused upon the very hearts and souls of Dade County and its citizens. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Character clear and pristine. Commitments all honored for the sake of mankind's hopes and goodwill not to be forgotten.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 13, 2020
A new lease on life is what every hero gives its community to share in. Opportunity sometimes knocks just once at the door and must be honestly and humbly taken advantage of. Everything in life and during your outstanding career you earned, Officer Cook. So now that a young man was lost way too soon, certainly you deserve whatever blessings and rewards from the skies above are delivered right to your soul. Versatility does give a consummate servant a leg up in this unrelenting battle over adversity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 13, 2020
Upholding, uplifting and enriching humanity was just a piece of the larger slice of life you left behind, Officer Cook, for your family, friends and comrades to carry on as your heroic legacy. The bar of bravery, boldness and resolve was surely lifted higher by virtue of honesty, integrity and the gentle touches of your tireless and unselfish dignity which in turn combated violence and mayhem in Dade County. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 13, 2020
The proving ground of life marches on we grow and age gracefully. Like a fine wine, integrity, honor and dignity all used to prevent and fight off incoming evil should all be gained and then used wisely. Your wisdom, maturity and vision, Officer Cook, offered a telling insight as to how you would conduct your consummate passions to preserve the quality of peace for those residing in Dade County. A morally scruptulous man with conduct and effort far beyond expectation, your humility and heroism shall be championed forever as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 13, 2020
Accountability makes a public servant more acutely aware of his duties and raises his own level of humane. humble and heroic honesty. It is an essential part of anyone's manual of mettle and morals. Your career and life, Officer Cook, were always directed by Our King Himself along with dignity and integrity implanted into your caring heart which was utilized to aid and protect life in Dade County. Heaven is where character, conviction and commitment are all uplifted by God's rewards and blessings for your sweet, special and virtuous soul. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 13, 2020
Bad behavior is not a hoax. Police just attempt to coax a humble bottle of honor and loyalty out of communities by virtue of their actions both with integrity and a humane amount of dignity. You worked very hard, Officer Cook, to bring a precision of character, respect and perseverance to the hearts of Dade County. A sincere hope that safe travels would prevail for all mankind. No one would have done a better job dealing with adversity and accomplishing those central responsibilities to uplift and enrich humanity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 12, 2020
Some of us reside in a vacuum oozing with life's passions until one day that bubble bursts ending our sincerest of hopes and dreams. The packages of goodwill, sacred foundations and the brightest of smiles, Officer Cook, was tragically uprootedonMay 16,1979, by a cowardly man. No respect, no dignity or integrity and certainly lacking in mandated character. You had everything. No bubbles floating only your humble and sweet soul circling over society where you inplanted peace into your incorporations of ingenuity and vigilance. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. One day that giant bubble of evil will rupture and then heaven will pave the path for perpetual tranquility.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 12, 2020