Please allow me to add a thought to this fine editorial. Over the past 24 hours, since Mark's passing, I have had a chance to speak to his friends who knew him from long ago when he was a member of the Hawaii Jaycees. Furthermore I also spoke with those in political realms about him. There is one thought that continually comes to mind, reaffirmed when I thought about Mark, again, this morning. 

Mark was one of the good guys. 

Removing the fractious nature of politics, Mark was a politician that served the role he held the right way.  That meant that he was cognizant of that role, and the rules which he needed to follow. To be a pol today and hold to the gentlemen's rules of the political game, that shows strong  personal integrity. 

It is that integrity that I hope becomes something that other individuals in the political world here in Hawaii will come to admire, and emulate into the future. That is how, to me, how we can honour Rep. Mark's service to Hawaii.