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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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Bob Schieffer Shares Little-Known Washington Media Secret

Bob Schieffer reappeared with the I-Man today, and touched on the subject of his closing comment from Face the Nation this week: the child abuse scandal facing the Catholic Church, an institution for which Schieffer has great respect.

“There really were the crucible, the place where knowledge and scholarship was all through the Dark Ages,” he said. “And the Catholic Church, along with Judaism, is really where all our Western values came from, and we’re the product of those values.”

It is therefore “heartbreaking” for Schieffer to see the Church in such a sorry state. “The church and its leaders have to put their reason for being ahead of the survival of their leaders, and right now they do not appear to be doing that,” he said. “Until they do, I think the church is going to remain at risk.”

Also at risk: the world, what with nuclear weapons floating around everywhere. To address this problem, or at least try to, President Obama is hosting 46 world leaders at a nuclear terror summit in Washington this week.

“This is a big deal,” Schieffer said.. “The thing about nuclear weapons and all that business is that it doesn’t affect our everyday lives …but this is one of the most important issues facing any president.”

While the summit won’t be a cure all, Schieffer stressed the importance of focusing on the issue every so often, and of doing so without interrupting his life.

“The good news about this is that it has not tied up traffic in Washington like we all thought that it would,” he said, invoking a very Imus-like mentality.

Schieffer interviewed Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this past Sunday, and agreed with Imus’s assessment that the two cabinet members are good at acting like adults.

Gates, who also served in the Bush administration, sets a good example, in Schieffer’s view. “He’s there because he thinks they need him,” said Schieffer. “If we had more people like that, I think we’d all be in better shape.”

On Face the Nation, Both Gates and Clinton “got a little kissy-face” with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, in Imus’s opinion. Schieffer thinks they’ve shifted their approach from criticizing Karzai in an attempt to pacify him.

“What they said was by design, that’s what they came on television to say,” said Schieffer. “It just shows that nothing in Washington ever happens by accident.”

Kinda like George Stephanopoulos badgering Obama last week with questions about Sarah Palin, which accomplished little other than to annoy the President and bring attention to Stephanopoulos. But it suited Imus’s agenda (we’re not happy ‘til you’re not happy), and not accidentally.

“George always says, ‘We have to take care of Imus,’” said Schieffer. “Let’s always keep that in the back of our minds.”

At least two people in that crazy town know what’s up.

-Julie Kanfer



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