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Feeding the troops

December 21, 2014 11:00 pm • Last Updated: December 21, 2014 11:19 pm

A woman offers biscuits to honor guard soldiers Sunday before a commemoration at the Revolution Heroes Cemetery in Bucharest, Romania. The anti-communist uprising, which left thousands dead, and ended the rule of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who was executed, started in the western Romanian town of Timisoara on Dec. 16, 1989, and in Bucharest, the capital, on Dec. 21, 1989.

A woman offers biscuits to honor guard soldiers Sunday before a commemoration at the Revolution Heroes Cemetery in Bucharest, Romania. The anti-communist uprising, which left thousands dead, and ended the rule of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who was executed, started in the western Romanian town of Timisoara on Dec. 16, 1989, and in Bucharest, the capital, on Dec. 21, 1989.

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