Private reflections have replaced traditional public services and marches on a historic Anzac Day amid coronavirus restrictions.
A far-from-traditional Anzac Day marked in isolation and in spirit has added new meaning to our most sacred day.
"This Anzac Day is no lesser than any other," Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance chief executive Dean Lee told AAP. "You had a real sense that the nation was watching, that the nation was coming together around this moment," Mr Anderson said. Also on Anzac Day 1919, a small group of Anzacs who had been tending the graves of their mates gathered on the shores of Gallipoli."And so our remembrances today, small, quiet and homely, will be."
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