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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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Imus Offers to Paint Michel Faulkner's House With a Toothbrush if He Unseats Rep. Charles Rangel. 

Before welcoming political newbie and Republican Congressional candidate Rev. Michel Faulkner to the show today, Imus had some complainin’ to do. “My throat hurts, I’m losing my voice, I have cancer, and emphysema,” he said. “Not that this should be about me.”
 
And it wasn’t, for the next ten minutes or so, surely setting some sort of record.
 
Faulkner, who is running against the veteran Rep. Charles Rangel in New York’s 15th District, told Imus his poll numbers were surging, and that he was looking forward to a victory on Tuesday. “Well, that’s not going to happen, of course,” Imus said tactfully.
 
But Faulkner, a former New York Jets lineman, insisted otherwise. “Charlie Rangel is a creation of the power structure, the powers that be,” he told Imus. “Forty years ago, he was put there by liberal Republicans, and kept there by liberal Republicans. For half the time that Charles ran, he actually ran on the Republican and the Democrat line. So the people in the 15th District really haven’t had a choice.”
 
Hoping to be the alternative Harlem has been waiting for, Faulkner went to the base of the traditional Republican Party—the poor—and discovered they wanted a way off welfare, a route out of public housing. The so-called “Liberal agenda,” in Faulkner view, purposely perpetuates their dependence on government.
 
“But all those folks want is an opportunity, all they want is a chance,” he said. “They want a job, they want legitimacy. They want their dignity back, and they’re saying to Liberals, ‘Get out of my life.’”
 
Faulkner considers himself a “traditional” Republican, and sees his Party as a means to set people free. “This is about self-determination, individual freedom, respect for life,” he said. “Those core values resonate with the people.”
 
A longtime community activist, Faulkner has run homeless shelters, helped open soup kitchens, and worked on AIDS walks. He has dealt with the Nation of Islam and the New Black Panther Movement, and brushes off accusations that he is somehow a traitor because he is a black Republican.
 
“I’ve got street cred,” he said, adding, “I’m not ashamed of who I am, and what I believe in.”
 
Faulkner was “born again” into Christianity in 1979, but does not think only Christians can go to heaven. “Lots of theologians disagree on that, but God has a plan for the Jews; they are His chosen people,” he said. And while he believes Jesus is the Messiah, he told Imus it’s not his role to condemn anybody who thinks otherwise. “Religion is man’s attempt to reach God based on his own merit—what you do, what you say, what you think—as opposed to receiving what God has done for you,” he said.
 
Imus was admittedly charmed by Faulkner, but was reluctant to offer his whole-hearted support. “The problem is we have Tony Powell, and he does Charles Rangel,” Imus said. “I don’t think he does you.”
 
Not yet, anyway.
 
-Julie Kanfer

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