Ceremony, Plaque Commemorate 9/11 in Briarcliff Manor [VIDEO]

The s and Police Benevolent Association dedicated a memorial plaque outside of during a ceremony on Sunday.

Marking the 10th anniversary of Sept. 10, 2001, Fire Chief Michael King noted the progress the country has made in a decade.

"Today, 10 years later, freedom and libery is winning," he said, "and evil and hopelessness is losing."

Father H. Theriault (Father "T") of the BMFD Chaplin and Rabbi Steven Kane of , who is also an associate member of the department, offered prayers during the ceremony's invocation.

Philip Zegarelli, village manager in Briarcliff Manor, likened the tragic events of 9/11 to the previous generation's Pearl Harbor.

"It was the direction of the first responders that created the heroes," he stated.

Jason Cascone, a lieutenant in the FDNY, returned to Briarcliff Manor several years after he began working as a volunteer firefighter while attending .

"I received my introduction to the fire department here in Briarcliff Manor as an 18-year-old college student at Pace University up on Elm Road," he recalled.

Cascone, who will be promoted to captain in a few short days spoke to the positive way in which the nation has reacted and built up after 9/11/01.

"Americans bonded in a display of valor, fortitude and love," he said.

NYPD Detective 2nd Grade and Acting Village of Ossining Judge William Hamilton shared his efforts to explain 9/11 to his 8-year-old son earlier that day.

"How do you simplify the sights and sounds of what Ground Zero looked like to a child who simply has no conception of that level of violence the city suffered that day?" he asked, rhetorically.

Later in the ceremony, Pastor Anthony Karlik of the Briarcliff Manor Fire Department Chaplin offered a benediction. 

In closing, King read the names of one Briarcliff Manor and two Ossining residents who perished on 9/11 and concluded, "God bless America."