FIRST CAME THE NYPD, THEN 9/11, THEN LOVE.

These two NYPD police officers who fell in love after their valorous efforts on 9/11 got married recently.

Judith Hernandez and Mr. Castro are New York City police officers and, as onetime partners in the department’s housing bureau, they made heroic rescues during the 9/11 attacks.

The searing memory of that day — how they cheated death together, the lives they saved together, and those they could not save — pulled them steadily closer afterward, as did the year of 16-hour days they spent together sifting through the ruins at ground zero. It finally persuaded them to end their police partnership and become partners in marriage.

As great a story as this is, I doubt we’ll see it on an episode of Law and Order any time soon.