Larry Deibert was drafted into the
United States Army in March of 1969. After Basic Training and Advanced Infantry Training he was assigned stateside duty for
about six months and then sent to Vietnam. In Vietnam, Larry Deibert served with the 557th MP Company, Long Binh, where he
patrolled the nearby villages, mainly as M-60 gunner on a jeep. About a month later, he was assigned to the Bien Hoa Provost
Marshal Office, where he worked as an administrative clerk until the mission was concluded. Larry Deibert
is the author of 95 Bravo and Requiem for a Vampire.
According to the book description of
Requiem for a Vampire, “Chained to a wall in an abandoned warehouse, twenty-one year old Lani
Jorgenson, the daughter of a minister becomes a vampire. Her creator, Marcus Bronson, lies dead on the floor, his head severed
from his body. Lani breaks her bonds and seeks her first victim. With his blood, she gathers the strength she will need to
begin her new life. She reads Marcus's journals and finds out many things, he, once known as Marcellus Bratius, learned
in his two thousand years as an immortal. One hundred and twenty five years later, in 1965, she falls in love with David Forrester.
Though she longs for a mate, she cannot bring herself to subject him to a life of vampirism. Lani hypnotizes him to forget
her and leaves the area, but David eventually remembers everything and vows to hunt her down and destroy her. Near the end
of the second millennium, Kathleen Hammond, a reporter for the Morning Call, goes to the scene of a death. The stone white
corpse of Jason Weber alerts her to the fact that a vampire may really exist. With the help of David and several other believers,
they unite to hunt Lani and face her in a final battle of good versus evil.”
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According to the book description of
95 Bravo, “It is 1970, and the United States is still deeply bogged down in the quagmire known
as Vietnam. Greg Taylor, a rural bred Pennsylvanian, finds himself becoming yet another cog in the massive military machine
known as the US Army. My novel follows him from the dehumanizing nine weeks of basic training, through his six month stint
as a Military Policeman at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland, and then to his ten plus month tour of duty in Vietnam and
ends when he first visits the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., in 1985. He has several hair-raising adventures at APG,
before he receives his orders for Vietnam, and once he is there, in a relatively secure area, finds that the war can claim
victims anywhere in the country, even in so called safe areas. After one near-death experience, he meets a young army nurse,
one that he had a crush on several years before, and though fraternization between officers and enlisted personnel is strictly
taboo, they find a way to continue their love affair and look forward to the day they will be back in the states as man and
wife. This novel gives the reader an overview of the Military Police mission, and also shows the frustrations shared by the
men and women who served there.”
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