VFW National Commander John Biedrzycki said the VFW stands with ally Belgium

as it mourns in the wake of a vicious and cowardly attack on Tuesday by

radical Islamic extremists who are "hell-bent on destroying us and our

entire way of life." The Chief called America vulnerable because it has

porous borders, a broken immigration system, and elected and appointed

officials who refuse to recognize this enemy as a threat to national

security. He also said America is weakened by a Congress that still refuses

to eliminate sequestration, which takes a meat cleaver to the budgets of

national defense, intelligence and homeland security. Biedrzycki said

America has been caught sleeping twice, on Dec. 7, 1941, and on Sept. 11,

2001. "There must not be a third time," he said, "and that's why the VFW

will do what we must to force Washington to wake up and destroy this enemy

before they strike our homeland. There is no higher nor more immediate

national priority."