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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 Makes Tom Friedman Smile for First Time in Years

Tom Friedman was greeted this morning to chants of “We’re number 11! We’re number 11!” from Imus and Charles, who were inspired by the title of one of Friedman’s recent New York Times Op-Ed columns. Though he giggled at this stunt, Friedman warned Imus that the basis for his column—a Newsweek article ranking the best countries in the world ranked the United States at 11—is no laughing matter.

Having recently returned from China, Friedman was feeling bad about his country; not because China undertakes and completes huge, progressive projects, but because they have the sort of can-do spirit that he once thought emblematic of the U.S.

“We are so embroiled in political divide, so unable to really make our democracy work democratically to generate the kind of focus, authority, legitimacy and support for big projects that China does through dictatorial means,” he said. “You really wonder, can we only produce sort of sub-optimal solutions?”

Friedman pointed out that China’s progress, particularly in the area of green technology, was born out of necessity. “They woke up around the time of the Olympics and said, ‘We cannot breathe, cannot swim, cannot fish, cannot drive, cannot drink,’” he said, adding, “One thing we know about necessity: it’s the mother of invention.”

He cautioned Americans to watch out. “You won’t just buy your kids’ next tennis shoes or t-shirts from there,” he said of China. “You’ll buy your next electric car…solar panels, and wind turbines.”

With the world becoming increasingly flat and crowded, as Friedman loves to say, energy demand has only one way to go: up. “And that means clean technologies and renewable energy have to be the next great global industry,” he said. “Either that, or gasoline’s going to cost you 50 dollars a gallon and we’re going to burn up the planet.”

The latter seems to be the direction the U.S. is heading in, because politicians on both sides of the debate are unable to pass comprehensive climate change legislation. Should the Republicans take back the House this year, Friedman speculated it would be at least three more years until a serious energy bill could be passed.

“It’s so obvious what’s going to happen,” Friedman said. “We’re going to wake up and basically, we’re going to have gone from importing our oil from Saudi Arabia to importing our solar panels from China. Thank you very much, have a nice day!”

Steven Chu: member of the A-Team?Though Imus observed that Democrats in Congress can freely support climate change because they know it has no chance of passing anyway, Friedman said the real missing person in this debate is President Obama. Despite hiring an “A-team” of energy and environmental experts, like Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Environmental Protection Agency head Lisa Jackson, Obama has kept them largely hidden from view.

Friedman supports a one-dollar-per-gallon gasoline tax, the profits from which could be used toward paying down the deficit and cutting payroll and corporate taxes. But that just makes too much sense.

“It’s win-win-win-win!” Friedman exclaimed. “I don’t want to live in China for a second, but I want my own country to work, and it’s not working right now.”

Imus, for one, was frightened. “You’re starting to squeak, Tom,” he told his guest. “You’ve got to calm down.”

-Julie Kanfer



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