Don't honor mass-murderer

As a Fancher family descendent, I am writing to protest mass-murderer John D. Lee being honored as a pioneer on May 7 in the city of Washington, Utah. There has never been any question of John D. Lee's responsibility, participation, treachery and guilt in the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Our family believes that honoring any mass-murderer, for any reason, is morally wrong. Erecting a statue to the man whose flag of truce and own promise of safe passage lured the 120 innocent men, women and children of the Fancher-Baker Train to their brutal deaths is unconscionable. I ask people to reconsider.

Marsha Perry

Rimrock, Ariz.