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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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Kinky Friedman on Being Bitter, Texas Politicians, and His Own Legacy

After establishing that Deirdre Imus and Kinky Friedman miss one another terribly, the oft-prophetic Kinky invoked Winston Churchill to express his feelings about Deirdre, and about Dagen McDowell as well.

“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong,” Kinky said.

From this poetic moment, Kinky segued into talk of Joy Behar, one of the co-hosts of The View, insisting to Imus there was nothing wrong with Behar’s bitterness.

“Everything great was created by people who don’t feel good,” he said. Prompted by the I-Man for examples, Kinky offered Oscar Wilde and Hank Williams. “I don’t know about Einstein. He must have been pretty miserable.”

Imus thinks that Kinky also falls into this enviable category. “You’ve been tormented all your life, and you’ve created great stuff,” he pointed out.

Kinky will take some of that great stuff on the road in a few weeks when he, along with sidekicks Little Jewford and Washington Ratso, hits the West Coast for some tour dates.

“I’m feeling really good these days, because even though I’ve lost three political races, I’ve become a folk hero in Texas,” said Kinky, whose bids for Texas Governor and then Agriculture Commissioner were heroic but unsuccessful. “As Willie says, ‘If you fail at something long enough, you become a legend.’”

Further proving that he is, in fact, bitter, Kinky told Imus he recently wrote a story for Texas Monthly magazine about Rick Perry and Bill White, the two Gubernatorial candidates in Texas, called “The Lesser of Two Bull Weevils,” in which he criticizes them for not having “the cajones” to be true Christians and speak out against the death penalty.

Imus, however, supports the death penalty on the grounds that sometimes, innocent people get executed. “I think that sends a powerful message to people,” he told Kinky. “Even if we think you did it, we’re going to kill you.”

Kinky is also focused on a congressional race in Virginia, where a man named Kenny Golden is running for office. “Kenny Golden commanded the largest amphibious task force  to leave the West Coast since the Korean War,” said Kinky. “And he commanded the first helicopter squadron deployed to Desert Storm.”

In fact, Kinky is so impressed with Golden that he suggested Imus book him on this show. “That’s not going to happen,” Imus said.

In Texas, Kinky has thrown his support for Governor behind Woodrow, a rescue dog who is running as a write-in candidate. “We really should limit all elected officials to two terms,” he hypothesized. “One in office, and one in prison.”

If that’s not pure Kinky, we’re not quite sure what is.

-Julie Kanfer

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