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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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Same Old, Same Old with Tom Friedman

New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Tom Friedman wrote a book about the environment (Hot, Flat, and Crowded), so it jarred Imus when Friedman said the horrors of industrialized farming, detailed in David Kirby’s Animal Factory, were not on his “radar.”

Though Friedman promised he’d look into it, Imus was skeptical. “I can just tell, you’ve got a sausage burger in one hand,” he surmised. “And a bacon sandwich in the other.”

Friedman was probably using both hands when he wrote today’s column, which focuses on idealism versus realism in Afghanistan. In his view, President George W. Bush adopted a very “neo-realist” approach to the war there, worrying more about tracking down Al-Qaeda than about running Afghanistan. Obama has been forced to go down a different road.

“Karzai’s mis-governance reached such industrial proportions that tens of thousands of Afghans turned away from him and said, ‘You know what? We actually prefer the Taliban back,’” said Friedman.

Obama’s goal thus became clearing out the Taliban and delivering good governance to people, thereby convincing them to restore their allegiance to the government and join the Army, ultimately allowing the U.S. to skip town.

“Obama is pursuing a much more idealist foreign policy in Afghanistan, and by definition in Iraq,” Friedman pointed out. “A lot of people question Obama for getting in Karzai’s face about corruption, to which I say, you can’t get in his face enough.”

Imus hit it on the nose when he declared U.S. policy in Afghanistan, “the dictionary definition of nation-building,” and Friedman stipulated that the policy only works if Obama follows through.

So far, the “government in a box” tactic, as General McChrystal calls it, has been applied in Marja, Afghanistan, where the U.S. cleared out the Taliban and came in with “a box” of Afghan officials to provide good government. The jury is still out on this approach’s effectiveness, but it will soon be used in Kandahar, “the next big test,” said Friedman.

Imus, like most people, doesn’t see how this or any plan in the Middle East ever works anywhere, whether in Afghanistan or Israel or Iraq or Iran. “We often touch on this subject,” Imus said. “The conversation never changes. Just the people do.”

Friedman has noticed the same funny tendency. One of his first appearances with the I-Man was when he wrote From Beirut to Jerusalem, and as he prepares to release a 20th anniversary edition soon, Friedman knows exactly what the new introduction will say: “Nothing has changed.”

But something else better change, and fast: Friedman’s familiarity with the impact this country’s food supply has on the environment, and how poor treatment of animals on factory farms leads to all kinds of hazards, specifically health-related ones.

“This is an opportunity for you to get up to speed,” Imus told his bewildered guest. “Isn’t it, Tom?”

-Julie Kanfer

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