A Buffalo police officer shot six times in the line of duty just married the woman he thought he'd never live to wed—a story of faith and grit that the establishment press has no interest in amplifying.

Officer Marc Hurst, a nine-year veteran, was shot May 26 while responding to a domestic violence call—once in each calf, once in the upper thigh, once in the upper arm, and twice in his bulletproof vest. Most people wouldn't have walked away. Hurst did, and he credits God.

"I was still thinking, so I couldn't have been that bad, as good as you can be for being shot multiple times. I just remember, and I believe it's just from the Lord, this overwhelming peace," Hurst told WEAU. Lying on the ground, bleeding from multiple wounds, his mind went to his fiancée, Haley: "She's gonna be really ticked off if I miss this wedding."

Haley got the call from one of Marc's fellow officers. "I was like, 'You need to tell me what's going on,'" she recalled. "And he said that Marc had been shot. I was obviously freaking out, like, 'He's been shot everywhere.'"

Six days later, Hurst walked out of the hospital on his own two feet. Last month, the City of Buffalo awarded him its Medal of Honor. And Friday, he married Haley.

"When you go through something traumatic like this, you appreciate even the littlest things a little bit more," Hurst said. "I'm just so thankful that we are celebrating our marriage… and my family and my fiancée is not mourning the loss of me."

"To see Haley coming down the aisle, I can't even put it into words right now, compared to what could have been," he said. "Marriage is a gift. Haley's a gift… and I'm just so, so blessed."

The accused shooter, 33-year-old Minhaz Siddiqui, faces multiple felony charges including first-degree attempted murder.

While Hurst celebrated, another officer's family was mourning. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that Ludlow police Sgt. Brian Koenes died Nov. 9 shortly after completing a shift that included responding to a "stressful robbery incident." His department classified it as a line-of-duty death. Koenes—a former U.S. Air Marshal who served on the U.S. Marshals Service Central Kentucky Fugitive Task Force and the Northern Kentucky Regional SWAT Team—was a father and a brand-new grandfather to two. He never got his walk down the aisle, or any walk at all.

Two officers. One survived by the grace of God and a vest. The other didn't come home. The national media that spent years demonizing law enforcement won't put either story on the front page—because a faithful cop who credits the Lord for his survival, and a grandfather who died after a stressful shift, don't fit the narrative.

The question isn't why Marc Hurst's story matters. It's why the outlets that shape what Americans see every day would rather you never hear it.