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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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3:50PM

Imus Stands His Ground With Chris Wallace...Or Does He?

To serve as an entrée, Imus asked Chris Wallace, the host of Fox News Sunday and an esteemed political observer, what he thought about President Obama’s speech last night at a memorial service for the victims of last weekend’s shootings in Tucson, Arizona.
 
Immediately snippy (we’d later learn why), Wallace replied, “Well, I was actually on the Fox News Channel commenting on the President’s speech. I would have thought you would have noticed.”
 
Before delving into his analysis, Wallace wondered what Imus had already said on the air about the event, lest he unnecessarily repeat anything. But Imus, of course, interpreted this statement as proof that Wallace had been listening to a different morning show prior to appearing on this one.
 
Insisting he had been “doing other things,” and not tuning in elsewhere, Wallace then asked Imus, “Are you going to have my wife Lorraine and me on your morning show on Tuesday?”
 
Told, emphatically, “Not if you go on another morning show first,” Wallace became indignant, claiming it should not, and does not, matter who goes on which show when. “I have people who go on Meet the Press, and This Week,” he said, making it all about himself, a classic I-Man move. “And my feeling is…unless they’ve been on my show, and answered my questions, they haven’t really been interviewed.”
 
Figuring Imus lacked that same self-confidence, Wallace pointed out that he and his wife had offered to do Imus’s show first, via satellite from Washington, DC, three whole days before their scheduled appearance on Fox and Friends, to promote Lorraine's book Mr. Sunday's Soups.
 
“Fiends,” Imus corrected his guest, who wouldn’t let up, promising Lorraine would make Imus some gazpacho, his favorite, or the appropriately entitled, “family wellness soup.”
 
Then Imus dropped the F-bomb, a sign of growing frustration, and begged Wallace to move on to a discussion of the President’s remarks.
 
Noting that the event felt “more like a pep rally than a memorial service,” Wallace nevertheless praised Obama for his fine performance. “Obviously the emotional high point was when he talked about the fact that Gabby—Gabrielle Giffords—had opened her eyes for the first time,” Wallace said, referring to the Congresswoman who was shot in the head on Saturday. “If that didn’t get you, I don’t know what could, as Michelle Obama held hands with the astronaut husband of Congresswoman Giffords, Mark Kelly.”
 
Obama was smart, in Wallace’s view, to focus on the hopes of another victim, nine-year old Christina Taylor Green, who was killed in the tragedy, by saying, “What we need is a politics as good as she imagined it would be.” Obama did not assign blame for the actions of Jared Loughner, the gunman, to anyone, but instead challenged Americans to have a political discussion worthy of Green, and of all the victims.
 
“Framing the whole idea of civility, and not finger-pointing, and dealing reasonably with each other not as a blame game, but as an aspiration, as the lesson we should learn, was a really smart way to do it,” Wallace said.
 
Noting his guest’s remarks were more prescient today than they were last night, Imus accused Wallace of being “a vicious hater” because he said Obama’s speech, at 34 minutes, was too long. 
 
“No,” Wallace corrected Imus. “I just hate you.”
 
-Julie Kanfer


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