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 * "When I was here I wanted to be there. When I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle."
 * ― Derek Roberts

Derek Roberts is a character in Grand Theft Auto Online.

Background
Derek was born on January 20th, 1951, in the town of Grapeseed in Blaine County, San Andreas. Derek's father, Stanley, was a World War II veteran who fought against the Japanese and Derek's mother, Jess, was a regular housewife who made breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the family. He had two older brothers, Nathan and Patrick. Nathan was the eldest, being born on May 19th, 1947, while Patrick was born on December 27th, 1948. Derek's grandfather also lived with them, Daniel, who was a World War I veteran who fought against the Germans.

Derek had a fairly nice childhood, they lived in a. Unfortunately his grandfather died of natural causes in 1960. Everyone became heartbroken and mournful. It was a rough start to a new decade, it got better when Derek's father earned enough money and purchased a soft-top Vapid Peyote in 1962. War began to brew in the United States of America and it wasn't the Vietnam War. Protests spewed across the country but Derek felt the opposite, he felt that is was his duty to serve his country in Vietnam. In 1967 his brothers were drafted into the U.S Military while Derek lied his way into joining the war effort because he was only 16. By 1968, Derek, Nathan, and Patrick were sent to Vietnam. Derek served in Vietnam for five years, while Patrick died fighting at the Battle of Hamburger Hill in 1969 and Nathan died when on patrol from a VC sniper in 1971. During his free time, Derek would write to his parents about his time in Vietnam. Derek would always end writing his letters with "I'll see you when Uncle Sam is done fighting". In 1973, Derek was sent home to his family when the president, Richard M. Nixon, began Vietnamization. The strategy consisted of replacing U.S troops with South Vietnamese troops. Derek has sixty-seven confirmed kills and was given the Congressional Medal of Honor. He finally graduated from High School in 1975. Derek often had nightly panic attacks and multiple flashbacks from the war, this quickly ended towards the late 70s.

In 1981, Derek met a woman named Amanda Howard at a party at Cape Catfish, she was born on May 3rd, 1956. They became a couple and practically loved each other. In 1984, she moved in with him and they became much closer. On September 17, 1986, Derek and Amanda went to see a Love Fist concert at the Alamo Sea when they were on their "Dogs On Heat Tour". Derek and Amanda got engaged when he proposed to her in 1987, they got married next year in 1988. In 1991, Amanda and Derek had a child, a boy named Eric.