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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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Paul Hornung Talks Heisman, Lombardi, and the Good Ol' Days

Paul Hornung, the Heisman Trophy winning former Notra Dame quarterback and Hall of Fame professional football star for the Green Bay Packers, wakes up at 5:30 every morning and tunes into the Fox Business Network to see how Ford’s stock is doing.
 
“Then I smile, and then you all come on at six,” Hornung said, and confessed he has been a fan of Imus in the Morning for some time. “The camaraderie is fantastic.” If that’s what you want to call it.
 
Horning, a Kentucky resident, was in New York to attend this past weekend’s Heisman Trophy award ceremony Saturday night, where Auburn Quarterback Cam Newton was awarded the coveted prize.
 
“He is unbelievably big,” Hornung, no slouch himself at six-feet, two-and-a-half inches tall, said of the six-foot, six-and-a-half-inch Newton. “The people who are going to be tackling this man—they’re going to have some problems.”
 
The year he won the Heisman, Notre Dame’s record was just 2-8. “It was the only time in history that a player has won on a losing record,” he said. “We weren’t worth a damn.”
 
In those days, which were the early 1950s, players played both offense and defense, and Hornung did both well. After the Green Bay Packers drafted him in 1957, Hornung had expected to play quarterback, as he had in college. But Lombardi had other plans.
 
“I found out I really couldn’t throw on the level as a pro quarterback, but I could run,” he said. “So when Lombardi came, he straightened me all out…Vince said, ‘Hornung, you’re going to be my left halfback. You’re going to play in the mode like I had Frank Gifford in New York. If you can’t make it as a halfback, you can go back, get in the real estate business, and have yourself a time.’”
 
Needless to say, Hornung made it as a halfback, and also as a kicker, leading his team to four league championships and the first ever Super Bowl in 1967. As for what made Lombardi so special, Hornung said, “He motivated you each and every day. He made believers out of us. We believed in him.”
 
In 1963, Hornung was suspended by NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle for betting on football games, an experience he described as “I made a couple of 500 dollar bets.” He harbors no ill-will toward Rozelle, however, and suspects that professional football “would be a little different today” had the commissioner not acted accordingly. “He saved it,” Hornung said of the sport. “He really did.”
 
Hornung went last night to see the Broadway play “Lombardi,” based on the life of the football coaching legend. “I’m 75 years old, I’ve been through a lot, I don’t get upset too much,” Hornung said. “I broke up.”
 
Hornung is also portrayed in the show, and the actor playing the part actually traveled to Louisville to spend some time with Hornung earlier this year. “He asked me about the girls,” Hornung, formerly known for his wild ways, said. “I told him the truth: I was single, running around as a professional football player, taking advantage of the good times!”
 
Known as the “Golden Boy” during his career, Hornung was outrageously social, cavorting with fellow football players and other types.  He famously scored five touchdowns in one game against the Indianapolis Colts, and told Imus today why he was as surprised as anyone else at that astonishing feat.
 
“I hadn’t been playing, I was out, I was hurt, I banged up my shoulder,” Hornung recalled. The game, which was for the Western division championship, was played in Washington, DC, not far from where Hornung’s friend Rick Casares, also a football player, lived. “He called up, he said, ‘I’ve got a real pretty lady, would you like to have dinner with her?’ I said, ‘Hell, yeah!’”
 
Convinced he wouldn’t be playing in the game, Hornung stayed out all night, returning to the team’s hotel around 7 o’clock the next morning, just in time for breakfast, where Lombardi found him and asked how he was feeling.
 
“I said, ‘Oh hell, I feel great!’” Hornung said. “He said, ‘Well, I’m starting you today, and I want to see a good game out of you.’”
 
To this day, Hornung is not sure how he was able to perform so fantastically in that game, but Imus had some ideas. “I’d like to meet the woman you were with that night,” he joked. Though, as Hornung pointed out, neither he nor the I-Man could handle a woman like that nowadays.
 
-Julie Kanfer

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