Dr. Stephen Carney, historian of Arlington National Cemetery, addresses the crowd at the Confederate Memorial Day exercises at the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, in the United States on June 8, 2014. Dr. Carney spoke about the historic significance of the memorial as a Confederate monument in what was then seen as a Union cemetery, and he briefly addressed how the memorial was seen as a monument to national unity. Left to right on the dais: Miss Jessica Sizemore, vice president of the Children of the Confederacy (black hat); Mrs. Jamie Likins, president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) (white hat); Mrs. Joan B. Trafton, president of the District of Columbia division of the UDC; Mr. Alexander Pincus, descendent of sculptor Sir Moses Ezekiel; Ms. Patricia Rawls, chair of the Norfolk Botanical Garden Foundation; and Mr. Waite Rawls, co-director, American Museum of the Civil War.