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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

 

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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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Elmore Leonard Tells Imus About 'Djibouti,' and For Some Reason Mike Lupica Was There Too

Famed writer Elmore Leonard dedicated his latest novel, Djibouti, to Mike Lupica, Imus’s pal and a revered author in his own right. Seated by his idol’s side today, Lupica described first meeting Leonard back in 1987.

“My book editor at the time said, ‘Esquire wants you to do this piece on Elmore Leonard, and I told them you were too busy,’” Lupica said. “I said, ‘No, no. I can find the time to do that.’”

The two spent a few days together in Detroit, Michigan, where Leonard lives, and attended a Detroit Tigers baseball game together. “The fellow who was selling cokes came up the aisle with a big tray of them, and said, ‘Are you Elmore Leonard?’ I said, ‘Yeah,’” Leonard recalled. “And he looked at Mike and said, ‘Who are you?’”

But Leonard’s book Djibouti centers on a world far removed from Detroit. “It’s about a woman who is making a documentary film about today’s pirates off the East Coast of Africa,” he said. She travels to Djibouti with her assistant, a large black man and former mariner who “has been around the world 50 times,” as Leonard put it.

A romance blossoms between the woman and her 72-year old assistant, requiring him to take some sort of pill that Leonard named “horny goat weed.” Leonard did not travel to Djibouti to do any research, he explained, because “it’s not a pleasant city,” and he doesn’t believe in tedious detail.

“I’m not very good at descriptions,” Leonard, who wrote a book called Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing, told Imus. “So why do it?”

In keeping with that motto, Leonard also doesn’t care much for illustrating the way his characters look, relying instead on dialogue to provide clues about somebody’s appearance. “Some people say, ‘His eyes were close together,’ and go through the whole description of the face, which you never remember,” he said. “It doesn’t mean anything. But if you had one thing—if he had a big mole on the end of his nose—you would say that, and that would take care of it.”

Though Imus and others find Leonard’s writing comical, he pointed out that no one laughs in his books. “They’re all being serious, and they don’t know they’re funny,” he said.

Since Lupica insisted on tagging along this morning, Imus raved to his guest about Lupica’s forthcoming young adults book Hero, which Leonard has not yet read. Like Leonard, Lupica does not go into much detail about his characters looks.

“Well, he’s read my rules,” Leonard said. “He’ll use fewer exclamation points now.”

Leonard turned 85 years old yesterday, and said it’s been a good run, so far. “We don’t know how long the run will be,” he noted.

It was soon revealed to Lupica, however, how long his run on the Imus in the Morning program would last today. To his question, “Would you like me to hang around for the rest of the show?” Imus quickly replied, “We want you to get the hell out of here.”

-Julie Kanfer

Reader Comments (1)

I love Mike Lupica... It's always so much fun when he's on and he's just the most relevant guest...

November 2, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterTerry Ince
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