Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Twenty-five years of life and productivity gave you, Officer Cook, a wonderful legacy for your family to carry forward by. Honor, bravery and reverence, integrity and effective dignity to go out and battle such evil. Dade County was held together by a man full of endeavor and resiliency never better. A hero so humble and yet when it came time to patrol, you were always accountable and reliable. Never hesitation, no doubt your life and career, Officer Cook, had more in the tank to turn away violence. Why things happened the way they did, only Our Creator knows that answer. For eternity is your upstanding character, courageous commitment and passionate journeys and convictions held tightly in God's palms. Nothing will ever harm you again. But than again so terrible what happened over forty years ago while serving and protecting mankind with humility on behalf of all Dade County. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 5, 2019

Your colleagues that awful day of May 16, 1979, were hanging on to their lives as you, Officer Cook, were taken by wanton violence. God must have needed your humane, loyal and humbly heroic soul in heaven to stand guard with all your honesty, dignity and professional integrity and character. It's a commitment that you made to all Dade County that is now etched and sealed within the honor rolls here in Miami and in our nation's capitol. Always faithful, fair but firm. Trust and truthful, sincere and compassionate. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You were just doing your job that day and tragically an evil man committed a heinous actions against public service representatives.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 5, 2019

Tenacious not tenuous. Respect and honor. Integrity and dignity. Never a more genuine concern for a community that has forever heroically held you in high regard, Officer Cook. Dade County was the location of your career and life where your family preached and lived with humility. Never more character and enhancement given back to society, its harmony and tranquility replacing eviland terror. Legacies are earned and judging by your efforts and resolve, badge#1664 and the uniform you donned with pride and esteem will be valiantly remembered. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 5, 2019

Honesty and integrity are important. But, than so is efficiency and accuracy. Your dignity and integrity was always placed in harm's to shield Dade County from harm, Officer Cook. No doubt the resolve and resiliency were never absent and for certain your unwavering and undying actions on May 16, 1979, saved lives, both your colleagues and the citizens you took an oath to protect by virtue of your vigilance and unselfish humbleness and heroism to surely be revered and most respected from a treasured soul of peace and tranquility. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Hercules was a powerful man. You, Officer Cook, led by example and excellent characteristics that followed your loving soul onward to the skies above. Angels one and all circling the planets with their humane dignity intact never being harmed or endangered ever again.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 4, 2019

Yearning is learning, a motivation to hopefully drive your desire and destinies. A humble man, you were a hero, Officer Cook, whose years of experience and honor brought inspirational dignity and integrity to your department and community of Dade County. Character and commitment to both excellence and pride have legitimized your legacy of esteem, humility and the valor of which you made that ultimate sacrifice, Officer Cook, to spur on security and safe havens for mankind. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Forever did your actions of acumen and awareness spearhead goodwill and hope for a sounder and more serene future.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 4, 2019

The fire in one's belly burns with passion. Yours, Officer Cook, burned from the time of your youth and for truth and trust, honor and bravery, you were certainly a very poised and humble Dade County hero forevermore. Our serenity, security and safety were all designed by your character and unwavering and very tireless dedication as you remain cherished by your family, peers and close friends. we salute your instinctual reverence and respect this fourth of July, one where your family misses your smile and endearing personality now hidden in God's chest of angels. Humility, civility and sanctity patrolling those golden and sacred pathways in heaven. Rest in peace my neighbor friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 4, 2019

Curious people always want to know. Concerned people want to act. meaningful individuals want blend in. Those honest and humble as you were, Officer Cook, did something heroic about what was ailing Dade County. You came to a domestic scene and tried your utmost to stop a wayward man right in his tracks of terror. Integrity and dignity bring character and achievement to the forefront. Surely, humanity laments your loss and your entire family and police comrades who have memories of a young man gallantly staying the courses of care and respect. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 3, 2019

Commensurate with experience is effort and honesty. You can't begin the battles over wickedness a plan of action and acumen. Thank goodness, Officer Cook, you were one courageous man and a true heroic warrior. It gave Dade County and its citizens the opportunity to exist peacefully and in unison. A man with character taken to the heavens above where your humble soul now rests in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A deluge of grief that your family has tried to overcome all these many decades later with your beautiful smile sorely missing from all family functions. Keep looking over this world, Officer Cook, someday a ray of hope and spirit will dissolve this doom and gloom.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 3, 2019

Commensurate with experience is the virtues of honorable vigilance and unrelenting dignity and heroic integrity. Violence and evil scorch paths of pretty nasty stuff and with your goodwill and character, Officer Cook, were you functionally able to keep Dade County and its people from being harmed further. A humane and humane gentleman never taking his feet of ferocity off that pedal of pristine resolve. An enhancement that will be saluted and fondly paid homage to forevermore. Your revered and highly respected soul, Officer Cook, keeps ascending to the heavens above where your missions and journeys have been most rewarded. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 3, 2019

Play is play. Work is work and police work requires a certain touch, a gentle tact that not everybody has. You had some factors, Officer Cook, that helped you to handle just about anything handled to you. When Dade County called and said its folks needed securing and persevering, you were heroically and humanely present doing excellent things. When a man or woman of admiration gives their soul for peace and harmony to filter through we must answer their burdens and accountability with a salute for having valor and the increments of integrity, dignity and ingenuity. All loved and admired by your family, friends and comrades. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Champion a cause and continue your purposes and violence can be overcome.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 3, 2019

The wheels turn. Justice at times seems to be going full speed and yet mistakes get made in the deliberations of trust and truth. Your common sense approaches, Officer Cook, meant leveling the playing fields in and around Dade County. The consummate public servant out there protecting the ingenuity of all society. You can be certain your blessed and revered name and will never be forgotten. The heavens above receive virtue and the good awareness needed to solve and to preserve life. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Honor, dignity and integrity don't need enemies as they must be calm and humble during tense moments.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 3, 2019

The best tools to utilize when battling, fighting and giving your life and career to conquer evil is one's feet, eyes, ears and legs. Yours, Officer Cook, saved Dade County and its citizens from much adversity and because of your unselfish, unwavering and undying acumen could your vigilance and diligence stand the tests of time. Honesty, reverence and the parts of dignity and integrity performed marvelously when they were called upon. Never better resolve and humbleness. Mankind solemnly salutes heroes and heroines such as yourself, Officer Cook. Humanity was fulfilled by your faithful embraces which delivered morals and mettle, the kind that grand character brings to civility. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 3, 2019

Clarity is the very best vehicle of realization. Of course, honor and integrity, dignity and respect take those brave and humble souls of serenity further down those trails of tenacity than one might think. You were a hero and tremendously dedicated to all Dade County and its people, Officer Cook. Always loyal and considerate, polite and pristine, sure wish evil did not take a great man from his loving family and police comrades. The best of humility and character driving down those roads and streets marked with mischief and many other impediments that can limit the free flow of freedom, goodwill and hope. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 3, 2019

We must be adamant and rise above this evil and frustrating trip around society this wickedness plans. All any worthy and loyal officer can do is to perform their tasks openly and honorably stay focused on the business at hand with trust and the ferocity that dignity and integrity believe in. As united we stand we all may fall at some point and the assignment to is dust yourself off and to continue battling a foe so adverse as you did, Officer Cook, as a Dade County hero. Good habits are infectious just as ingenuity, intuition and intelligence are to the plans of women and men, desirable and decent in their humble undertakings. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 2, 2019

Arrested and abated, tough to tackle the crimes that threaten to take down our peaceful environments. Your days and six years of professional service, Officer Cook, were well spent cruising the venues and corners looking for the remotest hint of danger. Surely, your character and commitments to honesty, pride and justice won't be forgotten. A hero of esteem and humble confidence wholed others through hair raising turns with tenacity and resolve heroically at your side.The finest public servant who recognized goodness in nature and goodwill in mankind. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 2, 2019

Macaroni and cheese, pretty simple to make and to serve. Good character, integrity, dignity and honor pretty routine for most brave and humane public servants, for a minority not so easy to maintain. You just have to keep grinding and pounding the pavement as you so nobly and heroically did, Officer Cook, to raise the bar of boldness and the levels of noble distinction. They say the good pass away young. Still terribly tragic your death in the line of duty coming to aid your colleagues and the people you were so dedicated and loyal to. Heroism is sacrifice. Desire is decency in addressing the matters most prevalent to peace and security staying around forevermore. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 2, 2019

To pervert justice, truth and trust would give heaven's name a very bad mark. Your trust and truth , Officer Cook, has made your honor, integrity and dignity carry much weight during these last forty years since your unselfish and most humbly heroic sacrifice on dade County's behalf. All any body wants is peace and harmony, unity and liberty. Easier said than done and your efforts in your community, Officer Cook, shall remain blessed and saluted for conveying humility and the sanctity to take tension and terror off of the streets. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 2, 2019

Our nostrils take in fresh air, the very same air you breathed into your lungs, Officer Cook and sadly where Mr. Pearsall fatally wounded you. That day here in Dade County will not be forgotten nor shelved for dust to gather. Gallantry and honesty along with integrity and dignity form a dynamic partnership in piecing together goodwill and because of your heroic character and stellar commitment to pride, excellence and morals, may your humility and resolve be nobly blessed and rewarded abundantly in heaven. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your missions and drives of perseverance will never go unnoticed.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 2, 2019

One cannot buy happiness. You can acquire a good name by being honest and sincere, loyal and humble. It was found in your courage and dignity, Officer Cook, integrity to fight the adverse affects of evil and violence. Dade County and humanity as a whole benefitted from your fruitful journeys and missions of character that heroically saved your brothers and the citizens from one's unrest. Never forgotten and saluted for inspiring a healthy dialogue among all society. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. To encourage and to enhance, it is our very future and so many lives are placed in harm's way to deter this perilous obstruction. Better to construct than to deviate and destroy innocence.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 2, 2019

Death shakes the cabinets and closets where the brave and heroically honorable hang their courage and thoughtful integrity and dignity after along day's work. In Dade County where you sacrificed your life, Officer Cook, all your dreams, aspirations and desired goals were met. Very sad that at age twenty-five a career of fruition and inspirational character, wisdom and vision came suddenly to an end. You gave resolve and resourcefulness a blessed name to be eternally remembered and you are to be saluted for humility and the sanctity which you put back on those perilous venues. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Enhancement lives on in the spirit of your beloved family, police family and multitude of close friends and acquaintances.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 1, 2019

The criteria for all public servants is to stay honorable and humble, possess a certain level of dignity and integrity which is central in maintaining excellent character. You checked all the boxes, Officer Cook, a real Dade County hero and a legend of loyalty among your professional peers of justice, resolve, truth and trust. Mankind, humanity and society all clamor for some balance of peace and happiness, prosperity and safety and from a mature and faithful young man they received the entire package of proficiency. preservation and principles of perseverance and what it takes to stay focused upon your key onuses. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 1, 2019

Informed means aware. Astute means being on top details that can have the greatest influence on our safety. Nothing better than having a young man prepared and brave to honorably face whatever adversary is out in public looking to cause problems. And your resources, Officer Cook, furthered the causes and purposes behind justice for mankind. Dade County was heroically, humbly and humanely preserved by the character that is demanded from every man and woman attending roll call. never doubt, reservation nor hesitation, just honest dignity and respect for having integrity which bolsters one's own faith and goodwill. Never more saluted and poignantly honored. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 1, 2019

Like an executive chef, police are out in tandem giving instructions and communicating to the general public on how to stay safe and secure. Dade County was your venue, Officer Cook, where real strides were gained. Honesty, dependability and accountability for integrity and dignity helped you to summon the convictions of courage to keep on battling on our behalf. Always faithful and firm, fair and trusted, humanity received the full glass of your boldness and resiliency. A true heroic and savior! Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Every detail must be executed in order for evil to be eradicated.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 1, 2019

The roads you patrolled, Officer Cook, in Dade county were pristinely paved and never more perseverance and genuine affection for a job of such urgent matters. Immediacy requires acumen, honesty and never a let up or vacancy in vigilance and dignity. Violence waits and sets its traps hoping to trip up our most humble and heroic of public servants. Dade County and its residents got the full service and protection any community needs and your unassuming character and commitment to both pride and excellence are all being solemnly honored as part your heroic legacy. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 1, 2019

Hailstones are different sizes just as evil and even smaller events are as bad as full scale ones. Your good eyes and loyalty saved Dade County, Officer Cook, from much worse catastrophe. Honor. respect and reverence for dignity and integrity all led your challenges of tenacity down those roads of freedom and safety. Humanity was well regarded by your unwavering and unselfish virtue and sacrifice, never more character and discipline. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 1, 2019