Reporter Robert Vitale of theColumbusDispatch calculated that, as of last year, more than 70 Ohioans killed in the line of duty during the past decade had received the honor.
Six players from the Ohio State Buckeyes were suspened by the NCAA for selling or trading uniforms and other memorabilia to a Columbus tattoo-parlor owner, according to theColumbusDispatch.
"I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn't deny them the opportunity to get married, " he wrote in an op-ed in TheColumbusDispatch.