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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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Dr. Richard Haass Not Phased by Wikileaks, and Also Not Surprised

When you hear the title “President of the Council on Foreign Relations,” you think “ivory tower stooge.” Or at least, that’s what Imus thought the first time Dr. Richard Haass was booked on this show. “It turns out he’s great,” Imus said today.
 
The “document dump,” as Imus lovingly referred to the Wikileaks scandal that made public hundreds of thousands of classified cables concerning American foreign policy. “It’s rich!” Haass admitted, but said that as a former government guy, he believes secrecy and confidentiality make the system work.
 
The information culled from Wikileaks confirms, for the most part, what we already thought, in Haass’s view. “I think some of it’s interesting, some of it’s fun,” he said. “We actually learn some things. I don’t think it’s a crisis. I don think it’s a disaster for American foreign policy.”
 
The documents hinted at China’s disenchantment with its “ally” North Korea, and Haass learned as much in off-the-record conversations with Chinese officials during his last few trips there. “They think North Korea is crazy, they think they are dangerous,” he said.
 
This news did not surprise Haass, who was nonetheless happy to hear it. He was also pleased that conversations between the Americans and South Koreans about a unified Korean peninsula were made public. “The whole idea is to assure China,” he said. “To basically send the message, look—you guys shouldn’t worry about the end of North Korea. If this place is ever unified, it’s not going to be bad for you. You’ll still have commercial ties, American troops won’t be up near your border.”
 
Despite this news, China’s official policy remains very supportive of North Korea, and with good reason. “The Chinese are worried that if North Korea collapsed, hundreds of thousands or millions of people will come across the border,” Haass said.
 
More important, he continued, “They’re worried that if the country collapses, Korea gets unified, it’s going to be very much dominated by the United States. So from their point of view, strategically, it’s yet another country on their border that they see in our security camp, or somehow hostile to them.”
 
Had the U.S. reacted more aggressively to North Korea shelling a South Korean island two weeks ago, Haass predicted the North would have invaded the South, “a disaster for us and for South Korea.” China could then retaliate on North Korea’s behalf, both militarily and economically, by moving dramatically against the dollar. “They could create economic havoc in this country, and the world,” Haass said.
 
As for the Wikileaks scandal, Haass thinks it’s bad for the U.S. in general, but that no particular person walks away with egg on his or her face. “I actually think a lot of the American diplomats look pretty smart,” he said.
 
For instance, some of the cables revealed that American diplomats consider Russia to be a “gang” or “mafia” state, and not a real democracy. Others showed that Pakistan is not a real partner of the U.S., often saying one thing and doing quite another. 
 
“You end up seeing a bunch of American diplomats and analysts with 20/20 vision, telling it like it is, even if its slightly inconsistent with what we’d like the case to be,” Haass said.
 
Perhaps someone with equal clarity should be advising Vladimir Putin, who appeared recently on Larry King’s how. “He should have gone on with O’Reilly, who has all the people watching,” Imus noted. 
 
-Julie Kanfer


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