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Home Town Laurel, Md
Last Address Pipestone, Minnesota
Date of Passing Sep 11, 2001
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Max Beike was serving as the Deputy Chief of Retirement Services Division, of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel. He was in a meeting with LTG Timothy Maude and LTC Gary Smith when the hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon. Max died instantly.
Max J. Beilke
Max J. Beilke, a retired U.S. Army First Sergeant and resident of North Laurel, died Sept. 11 in the terrorist attack on the Pentagon, where he was employed by the Department of the Army. He was 69.
Mr. Beilke was born July 24, 1932, in Pipestone, Minn., to the late Max and Florence Beilke. He earned masters degrees from the University of Maryland and University of Michigan.
He served in the U.S. Army for 31 years and was officially the last American combat soldier out of Vietnam. He was a member of Columbia Presbyterian Church.
He is survived by his wife, Lisa Beilke; daughters, Sylvia Hess and Michelle Cornutt; sisters, Mildred Johnson, Lucille Johnson, Doris Brunell and Carol Wachter; and three grandsons.
Services will be held Dec. 11 at 1 p.m. at Fort Myer Chapel in Fort Myer, Va. Burial will be at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. A memorial service will be held Dec. 12 at 7:30 p.m. at Columbia Presbyterian Church. Arrangements were made by Donaldson Funeral Home.
Memorial donations may be made to Columbia Presbyterian Church, 10001 Route 108, Columbia, MD 21045.
Third Korean Winter, 1 December 1952 - 30 April 1953. Meanwhile the armistice talks had stalled. Discord over several issues, but principally the exchange of prisoners of war, had prevented any agreement in the latter part of 1951. This disagreement was heightened in January 1952. The U.N. delegates proposed to give captives a choice of repatriation, so that those who did not wish to return to Communist control could be repatriated elsewhere. The enemy delegates protested vigorously, insisting that all captives held by the Eighth Army be returned to their side. When the enemy failed to respond to U.N. efforts to settle the question, the U.N. delegation on 7 October called an indefinite recess in the armistice negotiations. Both military operations and armistice talks remained stalemated and, as the year 1952 ended, peace prospects seemed as remote as at its beginning.
