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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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Jeff Greenfield Settles for Talking About Politics Instead of Music

Imus determined that Jeff Greenfield would win the five favorite songs contest WABC Radio is currently holding, were he eligible to compete. Since he’s not, Greenfield, a political correspondent for CBS News, will instead address rumors that White House Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel will depart his post before week’s end.

Though Greenfield has never taken much interest in White House staff shakeup stories (“I think they take our eye off the main issues”), he believes it’s important for President Obama and his administration to figure out how they’ll make the next two years different from the previous two.

“If they have sharply diminished power in Congress—and they could barely get their program through with 60 votes in the Senate—what are the next two years going to look like?” Greenfield said.

Imus highlighted the possibility that Emanuel, known for his strong personality, likely influenced Obama’s demeanor and his message, which Greenfield sort of acknowledged.

“The whole point of him being there is that he, in a very short time, had risen to a leadership level in the House of Representatives among Democrats, after having served in the Clinton White House,” Greenfield said of Emanuel, who will probably run for Mayor of Chicago. The sagging economy, he believes, made it difficult for Emanuel to sway Congress as strongly as he would have under more stable circumstances. 

Also in need of stabilization: Obama’s image, which, in light of the projected losses his party will suffer in November, is undergoing a mini-makeover. Instead of holding rallies in arenas that he might not be able to fill, the President is instead meeting with voters in small, backyard summits.

Surveys have shown that likely voters are much more enthusiastic about Republicans this year than Democrats, which Greenfield said Obama is trying to counter by also speaking at college campuses like the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he is today.

“Their hope is that if they can change the population of who votes…they have a chance to minimize the damage in November,” Greenfield said, noting that younger voters, like those on college campuses, tend to vote Democratic.

It’s a similar demographic to the crowd expected to attend a joint rally in Washington, DC on October 30th being held by comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert and dubbed, “The Rally to Restore Sanity.”

While Greenfield expects the crowd to be big, he likened it to “the fall version of spring break,” and observed that the brand of satirical humor purveyed by Stewart and Colbert is not always appreciated in Washington.

“They don’t think it’s funny when it’s about them,” said Imus, who knows from whence he speaks.

-Julie Kanfer


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