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Collected Item: “ANZAC Day 2020”

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ANZAC Day 2020

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Photograph, Sydney

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Like many families we participated in a dawn service unlike any previously held this year. As gatherings and official ceremonies were cancelled people looked for alternate ways to commemorate ANZAC day. Across the country there was a movement to participate in a unified but socially distanced way. Lighting a small candle and observing the minute silence made us all feel a little more connected during the height of the Sydney lockdown.

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A McCormack

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2020-04
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