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This Isn’t Our Last Love Letter

Dear Don Don,

Way back in 92

I walked into the room and knew

Never felt this way before

I shook your hand while gazing into your eyes

And the feeling grew

As I took a seat I knew

A love that would have my heart

Forever

I knew

Way back in 92

They say love at first sight doesn’t always last or isn’t true

We were the exception to that rule

Our love had no where to hide

A spark set fire

As if this is how the universe started

I never doubted our love or what we could do

Together we grew

Forming a bond everlasting

That became our glue

My euphoria was YOU

I’m eternally grateful for the love and life we shared

For how fortunate we were :

“to have and to hold
through sickness and in health
Til death do us part”

Until we are together again

This isn’t our last love letter

I love you with all my heart and soul

Yours forever,

Deirdre (Mrs. Hank Snow)

I’m fortunate to have fallen in love with, marry and make a life with the sharpest, coolest, funniest, most rare, bad ass, tender loving, loyal man on the planet, my husband Don Imus.

A True American Hero

I don’t know why it has been so hard for me to write about my dear friend Don Imus.

I certainly know what he meant to me, my family, my charity, my hospital and the millions of fans that listened and loved him for so many years.

I keep reading all the beautiful condolences that people are writing about how much a part of their lives were effected by listening to him over the years.

But what most people don’t talk enough about is what he did for all of us.

In every sense of the word, he was an American Hero. His work with children with so many different illnesses and his dedication to their future was unmatched by anyone I have ever known or heard about.

Besides raising over $100,000,000 for so many causes, he took care of young people for over 20 years in a state where he could not breathe. Along with his incredible wife Deirdre, he created a world where children were not defined by their disease. That was a miracle! He was a miracle.

I will miss him ever day for the rest of my life.

I was blessed to be a part of his and Deirde’s life.

No one will ever do what he did.

I love you Don Imus - A TRUE AMERICAN HERO

David Jurist

IMUS IN THE MORNING

FIRST DAY BACK!

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The Imus Ranch Foundation was formed to donate 100% of all donations previously devoted to The Imus Ranch for Kids with Cancer to various other charities whose work and missions compliment those of the ranch. The initial donation from The Imus Ranch Foundation was awarded to Tackle Kids Cancer, a program of The HackensackUMC Foundation and the New York Giants.

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A Tribute To Don Imus

Children’s Health Defense joins parents of vaccine-injured children and advocates for health freedom in remembering the life of Don Imus, a media maverick in taking on uncomfortable topics that most in the mainstream press avoid or shut down altogether. His commitment to airing all sides of controversial issues became apparent to the autism community in 2005 and 2006 as the Combating Autism Act (CAA) was being discussed in Congress. The Act, which was ultimately signed into law by George W. Bush in December of 2006, created unprecedented friction among parents of vaccine-injured children and members of Congress; parents insisted that part of the bill’s billion-dollar funding be directed towards environmental causes of autism including vaccines, while most U.S. Senators and Representatives tried to sweep any such connections under the rug.

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By Michael Riedel - The one and only time I had a twinge of nerves before appearing on television was when I made my debut in 2011 on “Imus in the Morning” on the Fox Business Channel. I’d been listening to Don Imus, who died Friday at 79, since the 1990s as an antidote the serious (bordering on the pompous) hosts on National Public Radio. I always thought it would be fun to join Imus and his gang — news anchor Charles McCord, producer Bernard McGuirk, comedian Rob Bartlett — in the studio, flinging insults back and forth at one another. And now I had my chance. I was invited on to discuss to discuss “Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark,” the catastrophic Broadway musical that injured cast members daily.

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Thursday, January 14, 2010

3:11AM

Pat O'Brien, who Imus has known for way too long, complimented the I-Man's jacket, remarking that it looked like "an Armani, or something." Actually, Joseph Abboud designed the coat. "But that's where he gets all his ideas," Imus stipulated.

O'Brien, who claimed to have put Abboud on the map, impressed Imus with his list of five favorite songs, one of which was "God Only Knows," by The Beach Boys.

"Brian Wilson wrote that song because before that, outside of a church hymnal, there had never been a song with the name 'God' in the title," said O'Brien.

Imus questioned the validity of this claim, and further wondered why O'Brien, who does not ski, spent the holidays in Aspen, Colorado.

"I just like Aspen," said O'Brien, whose fiancee skis. "At least I go out in public!"

He then shared his plans for when and if — god forbid — Imus bites the big one.

"My plan is to somehow work it out with Deirdre, get your body, and put you up in some very public restaurant like Olive Garden, or Starbucks," said O'Brien, his eyes wild. "Because you never go out!"

He added, "We'll sit your body up in a Starbucks with a cheap computer on a Facebook page, so people can just walk by you and say, 'What a moron! This is the first time he comes out in public, and he's on his Facebook page?'"

Suddenly, O'Brien had a change of heart. "Actually, we'll make it a MySpace page, which is even worse."

O'Brien, whose most recent gig was hosting the entertainment news show "The Insider," no longer hangs out with the Hollywood crowd. But he told Imus that back in 2005, he predicted NBC's late night lineup would become a big ol' mess come 2009.

"Too bad we don't have a record of that," Imus said, doubting every word that was coming out of his friend's mouth.

O'Brien assured Imus, "There's pretty much a record of everything I've said in this day and age." Ain't that the truth.

In case anyone was wondering (and odds are nobody was), O'Brien thinks his fellow O'Brien Conan is very funny.

"He's funny to about five college kids smoking dope," Imus shot back.

That's exactly five more than find you funny, cowboy.

-Julie Kanfer

with

Pat O'Brien

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