Donald Rumsfeld's Cabin

With the recent passing of former Secretary of Defense, and noted war criminal responsible for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Donald Rumsfeld, some bits of trivia came to light: Namely, that his family had a vacation home in Castle Park, just south of Holland.

There are a lot of myths and legends about Castle Park, due to its impact on the world of literature, as it's where L. Frank Baum wrote The Wizard Of Oz, but that's content for another blog entry.

Anyway, anything I could write on the topic of Secdef Rumsfeld has pretty much already been written here:
https://www.castlepark.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2011_Spring_Banner.pdf
https://www.ft.com/content/6fefa640-c19b-11dd-831e-000077b07658

If I had literally anything else to add, I totally would have. I've spent weeks roaming the internet, Googling and Duck-Duck-Doing my way around, but the Wood TV link says it best: Ol' Rummy tried to keep a low profile, and succeeded!

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