Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida
End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979
Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook
You learned and prepared for all the battles of onus that came from your heroically yearning heart and soul of both dignity, integrity and stoically strong character, Officer Cook, that served, preserved and protected the vital and essential security, safety and serenity of all Dade County. Mankind, humanity and your beloved community all shared in your talents and they shared the grief along with your family when an evil man robbed you of living on through retirement. Such a good man cherished and surely an angel of valor who will be saluted for sacred journeys of wisdom, vision and virtue. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 4, 2023
Everyday I reflect about you, Officer Cook, your handsome and heroic smiling face tells the entore story of your life and career constructed through the conduct, professionalism and values of why honesty, dignity, integrity and character are important when protecting a community's serenity as you did for Dade County. Never a more humble gentleman beloved by all, loyal
to your fellow officers and cherished forever by your family who loves and misses you, friends as well. The heavens above have a true angel of trustworthiness, sincerity and the heart and soul founded upon the essential principles of ferocity and dedication all decent and all desirable. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Badge#1664 was respected, faithful and surely resilient.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 4, 2023
Your truth, trust and tenacity, Officer Cook, was breached more than that it was robbed so heinously from you. Dignity, character, honesty and integrity so very vital to all your faithful journeys andmissions of devotion and dedication protecting the good people of Dade County. Your hopes, dreams and aspirations were realized, achieved yet there was more left for you to accomplish. Twenty-five years of productivity, class and determination left on the streets where peril and evil sadly still roams. Never forgotten and forevermore saluted for wisdom,virtue and sacred vision and versatility. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 3, 2023
Officer Cook, your heroic life and career were truly the representation of everlasting honesty, dignity and integrity that the Lord bestowed upon your family and your very humble,loyal and blessed heart and soul that served and protected Dade County with cherished and unselfish character, wisdom, virtue and commitment now flying higher each second as your family's angel in heaven. Rest in peace my neighbor, frieend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 2, 2023
With learning comes yearning. With a heroic and honorable heart and soul sprouts forth dignity,character and integrity which you utilized to the zenith, Officer Cook, to serve and to protect the people of Dade County and you'll be revered, saluted and paid homage forevermore for your life and career of blessed humility and unwavering and unselfish performance. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Morals and values constructed to produce faithfully true and trustworthy missions and journeys of resiliency, resourcefulness and sincerity.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 1, 2023
You were there, Officer Cook, to serve proudly, to protect loyally and to preserve the landscape and dignity of Dade County. It was where you fought the bravest of battles and gave your sacred heart, soul and life forintegrity,character and commitment to rise above it all. A warrior unwavering and unselfish in all your duties where your wisdom, vsion and virtue shined brightly as does your spirit as you patrol the streets above where God watches over you every moment. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Humility and blessing surround your beloved family who forges onward with your legacy safely tucked in their hearts and minds.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 31, 2023
Perseverance, proficiency and prudance all running side by side of you, Officer Cook, as you heroically patrolled the very foundations in and around Dade County. A community close knit where your abundant charisma, honesty and both humble dignity and integrity followed each other down the tracks and trails of trust, truth and outstanding character, commitment and conviction. Heaven is where your angelic heart and soul now walk their beats of bravery, sanctity and versatility coming from your spirit of virtue, vision and wisdom. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 30, 2023
Diligent and dedicated all we can state with clarity and assurance was and always will be that you were honorable, dependable and loyal as a hero should be, Officer Cook. Dade County appreciated your sincerest endeavors infighting violence, crime and evil. When dignity, integrity and character is heinously usurped heaven help our world. You are forevermore and angel brave,virtuous and wise beyond your years and now and for eternity may you patrol God's heavenly gates with a blessed and humble heart of nobility, sanctity and versatility. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 30, 2023
Traditions are things that are solemn and meant to be adhered to if society is to co-exist. Police work requires honesty, integrity, character and quintessential dignity of which you had, Officer Cook, all heroic,loyal and sincerely cherished as you always will remain. A man who made a commitment to truthfully and with trustworthiness went about your daily patrols serving the people of Dade County where you legacy and name will be saluted for their sacred wisdom, vision and valuable virtue. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 29, 2023
Consumed by compassion, courage, character and commitment the very foundations of your heroic life and public service career, Officer Cook, were just what Dade County needed in a time of domestic crisis being unfurled that tragic day when you sacrificed your heart and soul for our very safety and security. A man of his word your sacred and solemn obligations of humility and honor, dignity and integrity implanted the basis of our very liberties today and forever will you be saluted, Officer Cook, for your inspiring wisdom, vision and virtue all versatile and all out on those streets where danger lurked. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero with your fellow angels who too gave their lives for a purpose and blazed the trails and paths of perseverance for others who dedicate themselves to peace.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 28, 2023
A unique mindset must be essential to the perilous obligations faced by all who wear a uniform and don a badge of honesty, integrity and dignity such as the one you wore, Officer Cook, with heroically loyal distinction while protecting the good folks of Dade County your home and community where you receive homage, solemn salutes of virtue and sacred bravery all of excellent character, truth and trust. Your paths and trails of diligence, heart and caring were consummated by your sacrifice and due vigilance. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 28, 2023
This world, Officer Cook, has changed so much since the day you left it by virtue of making the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of Dade County andits residents in order for harmony, freedom and liberty to support our truthful and trusted trails of reason, action and purpose.In fact, your professional prowess was always so loyal and heroic. It was honorable, dignified and surely one of heart, soul and integrity. Such dedication, devotion, resiliency and faithfulness ought to be shared and discussed as future have come to learn of you and the badge#1664 that was respect, wisdom, humility and blessed virtue. Such a young man, a gentleman of desire, decency and devotion poured forth to be solemnly saluted and paid the homage due. Your legacy is implanted and instilled with your family's heart and minds as they continue your passions as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero patrolling the pearly gates of heaven as one of God's humbly heroic angels of bravery, caring and character.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 27, 2023
You were guided by Our Master's perfection and true to form your unwavering perseverance was exactly what Dade County and its folks needed, Officer Cook. A gentlemanof faith and integrity and whose dignity, honesty and character supported the pillars of your wisdom, virtue and vision. It's what carries your family and will continue to do so as you look down from heaven. A blessed angel with a valiant and bold heart, soul and spirit. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 26, 2023
A morally righteous young man girded by humble, humane and surely heroic honesty, integrity and dignity that protected mthe people of Dade County with all your unselfish heart, soul and might of outstanding and uplifting character, courage and humility that we sincerely salute for its innovative virtue, vision and wisdom. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. True to your words of trustworthiness you never let anyone down. Just too bad God did not allow you to live more decades for what you accomplished in your all too brief twenty-five years many who live longer don't succeed.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 26, 2023
Your parents raise their children to be honest, dignified citizens of our world. To be true and trusted clearly is what every parent expects and nine out often turn out allright. You exceeded your parents' expectations, Officer Cook, rising above the crowd to become the very best public servant who protected his community with character, desire and above all decency, heart, soul and class that is our tranquility today as your watch is carried forward by other brave servants who wear a uniform and badge of distinction to be nobly and sacredly saluted for its wisdom, vision and virtue. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Clarity is conviction, commitment and the decisions that must be made to make security, safety and serenity an everyday part of humanity.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 25, 2023
The seeds are the beginning, then the branches grow out and from there is a big sturdy tree with all its roots in place. Officer Cook, you were your family's heart, soul and glue that kept them together during tragic and trying times. After they lost you the honor, dignity and integrity journeyed to heaven to accept an eternal role so cherished, heroically humble and forevermore under Our Maker's watchful eyes guarding the pearly gates where angels of outstanding conviction, commitment, truth, trust and character take up their humble chairs of courage, virtue and wisdom. Dade County was where serenity, safety and security came through your reservoirs of resiliency, faithfulness and unselfishly and unwavering dedication and concern to be solemnly saluted. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 24, 2023
To afford to live today we must have relied upon the very heroic souls of those women and men of the past to continue our trails and paths of true trust and humility moving forward. May 16,1979 was a day bright as the sun was that fateful day yet dark for your family and the entire community of Dade County, Officer Cook, who saw a man lay his life and career of ingenuity, intuition and integrity down along with dignity, heart and a soul reverent and fiercely determined to bring peace to our land. We'll never ever forget your perseverance, proficiency and persistence in carrying out your solemn and faithful duties to serve and to protect. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. They grieved and mourned your untimely loss and yet find within their hearts and thoughts to carry through with your legacy of heroism the branches of mankind where resiliency, respectful character will ensure the resurrection of your cherished and loyal spirit of adventure and wisdom's channels of versatility and virtue.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 23, 2023
You were the humble, heroic and honest public servant, Officer Cook, who never looked for anything but peace and prosperity for all Dade County and mankind in general. Your dignity, fortitude and outstanding character, commitment and stellar integrity shall be saluted and rememberedn for instilling an understanding of our purposes in life, yours too was important and it was and always will be disgraceful, heinous and regretful what happened to you. God summoned a true blue angel of humility, heart and likeability to heaven to patrol from above forevermore. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 23, 2023
Due diligence pay dividends to those who serve their assignments with vigilance and virtue so heroic and yet so honorably heroic and humane. You surely, Officer Cook, protected Dade County with all your strength and heart of integrity, character and dignity. You made the ultimate sacrifice and your commitment to preserve the serenity and safety of your beloved community won't be forgotten ever. Truth and trust never wavered as your professionalism was always loyal and above reproach. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Humanity and mankind were sincerely blessed with your assets of awareness, acumen and sacred versatility.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 22, 2023
You endeavor to perform your job and accept your roles of honor, dignity and integrity the way all public servants must who protect us. Well you did your job, Officer Cook, with high marks more importantly with everyone you worked withor partnered with praising you for being dependable, loyal and surely unselfish. Unwavering and unrelentless, your heart and soul all strong, heroic and valiant made the citizens of Dade County your community safer and more purposeful. Your family continues the chapters of your character, commitments and convictions every moment uplifting your legacy all angelic and all sacred as were your consummate journeys and missions on behalf of mankind, goodwill, faithfulness and the resiliency of a very loyal and noble warrior. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your family dearly misses you and your warm and handsome face and smile that lit up any room.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 21, 2023
Police have enough to challenge them. Danger, evil and violence must be handled by those servants who are dignified, honorable, loyal and the integrity of their character stands tall and heroically humble as yours was, Officer Cook. Dade County will never forget you and what you represented in compassion, passion and vigilance. Your family continues your heroic legacy everyday as you watch from the skies above. God's heavens are filled with angel of sanctity, virtue and wisdom. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 21, 2023
Meant to say, Officer Cook, if you did not go to that scene that day no telling what further evil and heinous violence would have pursued you'll always be Dade County and your family's hero. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 20, 2023
Beloved, adored and cherished by your family, colleagues and many friends, Officer Cook, your life and solemn public service career was Dade County's saving grace for if you did go to that scene that fateful day of May 16, 1979 no telling what more calamity would have resulted. You were the consummate man of character, the class of dedication, devotion, decency and desire because of your unassuming, unwavering and unselfish integrity, dignity and composed honor all flowing from your uniform and badge of morality, sanctity and sure versatility as your wisdom, vision and virtue shall be remembered for generations to come. You surely deserved to live out your life in retirement and the God Lord had other more important plans for His guardian angel of bravery. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 20, 2023
A humbly noble man who defended Dade County and its citizens with all his heart, soul and upstanding character and you will be remembered solemnly for having the dignity, honesty and integrity following your life and career of truth and trust such commitments and convictions revealed the quality of your personality. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero. Officer Cook, wisdom, vision and virtue validated your very sacred journeys and missions on behalf of mankind where goodwill, faithfulness and resourcefulness never let you down.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 20, 2023
Officer Cook, you reflected the highest of heroic, honorable and dignified principles defending us from evil here in Dade County. A noble man with class, decency and integrity whose very heart and soul watches your adored family from the perches of perfection. Never a day goes by without offering a sincere, humble and humane post of your unwavering and diligent perseverance. We salute you and the many other angels of wisdom, vision and virtue who made the ultimate sacrifice for our serenity, security and safe trails of truth and trust. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
August 19, 2023