Mr. Waite Rawls, co-director, American Museum of the Civil War, speaks with an audience member while the color guard stands at attention during Confederate Memorial Day exercises at the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, in the United States on June 8, 2014. The United Daughters of the Confederacy has led Confederate Memorial Day exercises at the memorial since 1904. Flowers are routinely strewn on the graves of the Confederate dead during the ceremony. The color guard was provided by the Maryland Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV).