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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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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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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
3:17PM

Imus Forgot Sam Moore's Birthday, But Moore Didn't Forget to Rib Him For It

Sam Moore turned 75 last week, but he doesn't look a day over 74. His longtime pal Imus forgot to wish him a happy birthday, leading Moore, the singer once part of the duo Sam & Dave, to conclude, “You call me for everything else, but you didn’t call me for my birthday!”

On The Imus Ranch Record II, which debuts next week, Moore sings the song “Bop,” a track he and Imus agreed on after hundreds of other options were discussed. Ever optimistic, Imus had told Moore, “If it doesn’t work out, it won’t be the first crummy record you’ve made.”

You can’t put a price on encouragement like that.

Moore was in a silly mood today, and happily told Imus he hadn’t listened to any of the other songs on The Imus Ranch Record II. In fact, he had no idea that artists like Jamey Johnson, Levon Helm, and Kinky Friedman had also participated, and let out a joyful whoop when Imus played the cut “Part Time Love,” by Mike Finnigan and The Phantom Blues Band.

“That’s singing!” Moore cried when the clip was over. “We don’t get that no more, do we?”

Asked who he, the original Soul Man, thinks is the greatest white blues singer, Moore thought for a few seconds and said, “Vince Gill,” which Imus lauded as “a great answer.”

Moore is in New York to perform at the Angel Ball for Cancer Research, but he shared with Imus today information about another charity close to his heart, The Starkey Hearing Foundation.

“It’s an amazing thing when you can stand and watch a child that has never heard before, and then they’re fitted with hearing aides,” he said. “And then you see that child’s face light up.”

An Arizona resident, Moore does not follow politics, and tried to pretend he follows sports, telling Imus, after a lengthy pause, that he likes the Jets. Asked who they played last weekend, Moore guessed The Vikings, which was wrong.

Moore protested that he had been busy celebrating his birthday, an occasion Imus forgot, in case Moore didn’t already tell him that. “I was downstairs at my birthday party!” he told Imus.

Which might explain why Imus never connected with his friend to wish him a happy 75th birthday. “That’s why I couldn’t get through,” he said. “I called on the upstairs phone!”

-Julie Kanfer

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