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Frank Bergquist
Frank Bergquist graduated from Eddyville, IA, high school in 1958. After graduation, he entered the Army, serving 20 years in Missouri, Maryland, New Mexico, Germany, Iowa, Turkey, Kansas, S.E. Asia, and finally retiring in 1978 in Louisiana. Before retiring, Frank was assigned as an ROTC instructor at WSU and Kemper Military School until 1974. In 1978 he served as the Non-Commissioned officer in charge of operations at Fort Polk, LA. He has served as the Veterans Counselor (DVOP) with the Kansas Job Service Center National Service Office, with the Disabled American Veterans at the VA Regional Office in Wichita; Veterans Employment and Training Coordinator with the US Dept. of Labor at Ft. Riley, KS; Service Coordinator with Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation; Dept Adjutant-Treasurer and the Dept. Executive Director Dept. of Kansas Disabled American Veterans; and past President of the Wichita Civil War Round Table. Currently he is doing graduate work as an instructor in Genealogy and Military History at Wichita State and Kansas State Universities, and is the CEO for the Disabled American Veterans Thrift Stores in Wichita, KS. Bergquist has an AA from Kemper Military School and College from Boonville, MO. and a BGS from Wichita State University. He can be reached by telephone at 316-262-6501. He is located at 926 N. Mosley Wichita 67214.
Veteran Affairs
2006-04-01 12:56:00
What exactly is the DAV and how does it help?
ANSWER: Treaties are signed and the battles of nations end, but the personal battles of those disabled in war only begin when the guns fall silent.  These men and women must struggle to regain health, reshape lives shattered by disability, learn new trades or professions and rejoin the civilian world.  At each step, they need help, to help themselves.  For three quarters of a century now, that aid has come from the Disabled American Veterans (DAV), a nonprofit organization of more than one million veterans disabled during a time of war or armed conflict.Formed in 1920 and chartered by Congress in 1932, the million-member DAV is the official voice of America’s service-connected disabled veterans; a strong, insistent voice that represents all of America’s 2.1 million disabled veterans, their families and survivors.  It’s a nationwide network of services, free to all veterans and members of their families, and is totally supported by membership dues and contributions from the American public.  Not a government agency, the DAVs national organization receives no government funds.The Disabled American Veterans (DAV) has a mission.  Helping eligible veterans receive all the benefits and services they have earned through their sacrifices for their country.  Well over half of all veterans eligible for DAV membership have already joined the ranks.  If asked why they joined members would overwhelmingly cite DAV Services.  Helping disable veterans and their families is what the DAV does, that’s all they do, and they do it well because veteran’s deserve the best.  Veterans like the fact that the DAV is not a government agency and receives no government funding.  They know the DAV is on their side.  That’s why more then 200,000 veterans and members of their families seek out professional DAV services every year.The DAV Thrift Stores sales support local veterans programs in the immediate Wichita area.  Every year the DAV gives out food baskets to veterans and their families at any time of need, not just the holidays.  We give clothing vouchers to veterans as needed.   Our sales support the DAV-Transportation Network in the local area, veterans are driven to doctor and hospital appointments by DAV volunteer drivers at no charge.  Our locally owned and operated stores employ approximately 70 people in our five stores and warehouse.
 
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