Elmer's Brother

Lieutenant General Timothy J. Maude November 18, 1947 – September 11, 2002) was the highest ranking military officer killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the most senior U.S. army officer killed by enemy action since Simon B. Buckner in 1945. He was serving as the U.S. Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel and was at a meeting when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the west side of The Pentagon. His offices had recently been moved to the most recently renovated section of the Pentagon.

General Maude was born in Indianapolis, attended the Latin School, a seminary high school there, and was a graduate of Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. He went through officer candidate school in the Army, was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1967 and started out as a postal officer.

He served a year in Vietnam and won the Bronze Star. His later duties involved personnel matters in Germany, South Korea and the United States.

He is survived by his wife Terri and two daughters.

Maude was buried at Arlington National Cemetary on October 6, 2001. On April 20, 2002 the Lieutenant General Timothy J. Maude Center for Human Resources was dedicated in his honor at the Campbell Barracks in Heidelberg, Germany where he served from 1995 to 1998 as Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel and Installation Management. It was his last assignment before being stationed in Washington, D.C.

He began every speech the same way: "I'm Tim Maude and I'm a U.S. Army soldier." An Indiana native he was known as 'the Hoosier who took care of his soldiers'. Maude had received his third star the year prior, a rank usually reserved for combat officers. But the Army made an exception for him. In the middle of its worst recruiting year, the Army put Maude in charge of reversing that trend. In September, he had reported that the new "Army of One" recruiting campaign had helped the Army meet its goal ahead of schedule.

"He took care of soldiers, that's what he did," said Alan Craig, another Indiana native who works for the Army's training program.

After Lt. Gen. Timothy J. Maude ruptured his spleen in an accident at the Pentagon, doctors told him to rest for a month and forget about his duties as the Army's deputy chief of staff for personnel. He didn't listen.

General Maude established Internet and phone lines, and less than 48 hours after his surgery was receiving updates and briefing personnel from the bedroom of his home in Fort Myer, Va.

"It would have been very easy for him to turn it over" to colleagues, said Col. Sean J. Byrne, the general's executive officer. But "the Army needed him," Colonel Byrne said. "They wanted his sage wisdom." He was also know for being tough but fair.

During the dedication of the Lt. Gen. Timothy J. Maude Center for Human Resources in Heidelberg Teri Maude described her husband’s easy-going personality.  “… I would also like to tell you something else about Tim.  He would be so embarrassed by all this … he really would.  He didn’t see himself as a visionary.  He didn’t see himself as a senior leader.  In fact, he told me not too long ago that there were times that he would walk down the halls of the Pentagon … he’d walk by a picture or mirror and see his own reflection with three stars and say, ‘Oh … who’s that!’  He said this because he just didn’t see himself as a three-star general.  He always saw himself as a soldier … that’s all he ever wanted to do … or be.”

“It was a very beautiful ceremony and it was nice to find out how much my dad meant to everyone and how much he was loved,” Koehler said.

Maj. Gen. Dee A. McWilliams said: General Maude was extraordinary – a once-a-generation officer and the best boss I ever had,” McWilliams said.  “Lieutenant General Timothy J. Maude understood the human spirit and knew that the well-being of the Army family is inextricably linked to the readiness of the force. “I never heard him raise his voice – never saw him lose his temper.  Always steadfast and confident, his unmistakable hallmark was an abiding love of soldiers – it was infectious!” McWilliams added.

A building at Camp Casey, Korea, was also named after Maude.  The 2^nd Infantry Division dedicated the Lt. Gen. Timothy J. Maude Soldier Support Center.

 A scholarship in his honor The Lt. Gen.Timothy J. Maude Memorial Fund Scholarship but was later changed to The Maude Foundation. For more information visit The Maude Foundation.