Bill would honor fallen EDC marine
A bill honoring an El Dorado County resident who died in 2012 fighting in Afghanistan passed the House and now moves to the Senate.
HR 979, a bill to honor Marine Staff Sgt. Sky Mote of El Dorado was introduced by Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Granite Bay. It designates a mountain peak in the John Muir Wilderness, under which the Mote family gathered to camp every year, a Sky Point. Every member of the California congressional delegation is a co-sponsor of the bill.
Mote was awarded the Navy Cross, Purple Heart, Navy-Marine Corps Commendation Medal, a Navy-Marine Corps Achievement Medal, two Combat Action Ribbons and three Good Conduct Medals.
His nine-year service included a deployment to Iraq and two deployments to Afghanistan.
No disrespect to Sgt. Mote, but this seems a poor use of legislative time, and in addition, we’ll soon run out of mountains.
I always thought the Viet Nam wall was just about the best memorial you could imagine, and I think this is a better concept than taking individual mountains and assigning names for fallen soldiers to them.