Australia shed more than 100 years of tradition as a very different Anzac Day was commemorated in 2020.
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The 2020 incarnation of arguably the nation's most revered day was played out in isolation as we dealt as best we could with the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Rutherford a bagpiper set the scene. Special renditions of Australian classics echoed as communities paid tribute to servicemen and women past and present.
It would have been the 60th consecutive year the 72-year-old - "it was my birthday yesterday as a matter of fact" - had played at an Anzac Day ceremony.
That's right, he started at age 12, and has been going strongly ever since.
Fast forward 60 years and it's hard to think there would be a more experienced Anzac Day bugler anywhere.
"I've played at Tamworth, which was where I grew up, and then I was bandmaster at Moree and played there for a few years, and then I played at Gosford in 1972.
"After that I was bandmaster at Toronto, then I was at Civic Park in Newcastle and for the last 14 years I've been travelling up to Morpeth."