Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida
End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979
Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook
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
Like a fox in a hen house, terror and evil strike us when we least expect it to. You responded to that scene that day of May 16, 1979 and showed, Officer Cook, Dade County as to why homage is paid to your soul of honor, integrity and dignity. Character and commitment to achieve stability and unity through your unselfish actions of heroism. It put sanctity back on the streets you protected. Never forgotten and honored for being a man of values and ideals. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You faced peril as a hero should.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
January 31, 2020
Serenity and security are at times pain staking tasks. Corruption and evil never seem to lessen. Seeing that you were an honorable and brave young man, Officer Cook, patrolling Dade County brought you joy and made your beloved parents mighty proud of your life and heroism. Every circumstance and situation is unique and you my neighbor, friend and hero provided the basis of why we honor your memory, spirit and gentle soul of loyalty and faithfulness. Rest in peace.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
January 31, 2020
Pilgrimages persist. They don't stop for anything. As violence turns up its afterburners so too did you, Officer Cook, turn up your honesty, humility and respect for mankind. A job of peaceful watching well done. Dade County salutes your cherished character and solid foundation you left behind for other duly humble women and men to follow in. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Dignity well guarded as you patrol those heavenly gates of esteem and loving kindness.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
January 31, 2020
Heaven holds that humble and heroic pyramid of perfect honor, pristine passion and surely dedicated dignity and integrity. all real and all serenely powerful. Your life and career serving Dade County, Officer Cook, was certainly blessed from above with so much character and loyal commitments top excellence and pride to be saluted and solemnly remembered forever. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
January 31, 2020
Despair should never tarnish and undo the excellent work of honest and loyal servants such as yourself, Officer Cook. A man above the crowd in maturity who completely understood his roles and assignments. The pressure mounts and your unassuming integrity, dignity and character stood front and center. The skies above do shine on because of your humane and heroic spirit. Mankind was better served by your resourcefulness and good graces. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
January 30, 2020
Memos and notes and relevance are what fighting off violence is all about. Dade County held you in high regard, Officer Cook, its hero and honored public servant. The folks needed a man of mettle and you set the wheels in motion and showed your true grit by answering a call even though not required to respond.It demonstrated leadership and motivation, humility and sanctity above and beyond. Your soul will never be forgotten as it floats in the heavens above. Character and transparency are rewarded as is your blessed soul. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
January 30, 2020
How much you were beloved and greatly admired, Officer Cook, a forever hero here in Dade County. Your loving family holds you close at all times in their hearts and minds never letting an iota of honor, integrity and dignity away from your unassuming character.You were a uniform of humble nature so confident in your career and well esteemed life of service. Serenity and safe trails were given to everyone because of your talents and tenacity which kicked in once you started patrolling your community. A beloved figure whose loyalty and resounding feats of truth and trust won't ever be overlooked. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
January 30, 2020
Terror and torment have to be dealt with quickly and without delay. When the lives of those you served, Officer Cook, were in danger you responded to Dade County and its venues with nothing but humility and honesty. The best of dignity and character to offset the residue of evil and your heroic actions saved face that day your life was taken as you have been remembered for your warrior like mentality. Accountability and resiliency always were of determination and steadfast dedication. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
January 30, 2020