There is more than one answer to this question.

(1) The majority of the officers and directors on the executive board of the Korean War Veterans Association do not perceive that there is anything wrong with their conduct or actions in the member expulsion process.

To be sure, there are directors serving on the board who strongly disapprove of the continued investigations and expulsions of members.  They repeatedly express a willingness to communicate directly with members, hear them out, attempt to understand where they are coming from, and deal with their problems.  Unfortunately, the strongest supporters of the Louis Dechert Administration act just the opposite.  They are the directors who exacerbate leader-to-member problems and who generally vote in favor of each and every member expulsion.

(2) All Korean War veterans are over 70 years of age, and most of them are dealing with personal challenges such as health issues and trying to survive on a fixed income.  Most could care less about the comings and goings of the KWVA.  They fought their battles in 1950-1953.  They don't want to be bothered with the politics of the organization in their senior years.  They just want to read the KWVA magazine to see if there is anything in it about the units and buddies they served with in Korea.  Most members of the Korean War Veterans Association don't even bother to cast a mail-in vote in the KWVA national elections.

(3) The members of the KWVA who chose to vote in the Year 2006 election learned that their votes were negated shortly thereafter.  The majority of voters mailed their ballots in, demanding a change in leadership.  There was a promise of positive change when anti-Dechert candidates won the election.  However, when the winning candidates were not the winners preferred by the current administration, they were brought up on charges.  The newly-elected 2nd vice president was expelled.  Another director resigned in disgust when he came under investigation.  Another director accepted probation in order to remain on the board and serve the members who had elected him to office.  "Going by the book," the Dechert Administration then appointed the losing candidates (Dechert supporters) to fill the "vacancies" when the two newly-elected leaders (non-Dechert supporters) were considered to no longer be members in good standing.  Now the members of the Korean War Veterans Association ask, "Why bother to vote at all if our votes don't matter?"

(4) Failure of the news media to publicly expose the problems within the KWVA is another reason why the member expulsions cannot be stopped.  Newspapers and television and radio stations like to carry "fluffy" human interest stories about veterans.  The public likes it when veterans are revered as they should be.  The stories sell well and the news media is applauded for honoring veterans.  However, a news story about the less than perfect veteran-to-veteran conduct found within the Korean War Veterans Association would contain negativity.  Most editors and publishers don't like to call attention to something negative about veterans.  It rocks the boat.  Besides, in-house conflicts in veterans organizations are like in-house conflicts in so many other non-profits.  In-house squabbles have been going on since Day One in the non-profit world.  There is "nothing new" about them, and thus they are usually not considered newsworthy.

There are two reasons why events taking place in the KWVA are, indeed, worthy of national media attention.  First - Veterans are being expelled from a veterans organization by their fellow veterans because they dare to exercise their right of free speech.  Second - The democratic election process in a veterans organization was undermined by national leaders of that organization who were determined to remain in power.

The veterans organization in question is the Korean War Veterans Association, composed of freedom-loving men and women who served their country for the great purpose of protecting freedom--not just in the country of Korea, but also globally.  It is ironic that the freedom of these freedom fighters is now in jeopardy.  The fact that it is in jeopardy makes it very, very newsworthy.