April 25 is a national day of remembrance that commemorates all of the Australians and New Zealanders who have died or served in all forms of war, conflict or peacekeeping operations around the globe. This Anzac Day will be different.

Australians value coming together to pay their respects to our service people and this year, thanks to the coronavirus, we will have come together but stay apart on Saturday.

This does not mean we can't pay our respects, though. Quite the opposite.

It means we should go out of our way we are showing those veterans around Australia and New Zealand the sacrifices they have made.

Over the past couple of days, we have featured stories in The Border Mail of the extraordinary lengths people are going to, to honour our war heroes.

Former Deniliquin RSL president John Jansen will play The Last Post at the Hume Retirement Resort while Toli Kolisnyk will perform the ceremonial song on a trumpet at the front of his home at 6am on Saturday.

Woodland Grove will look nothing like previous years as Wodonga RSL sub-branch vice-president Kevyn Williams and president Jim Begley privately lay a wreath to honour those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Albury RSL sub-branch president Graham Docksey told The Border Mail he was delighted at the amount of support the #LightUpTheDawn campaign, which has asked residents to stand at the end of their driveways on Anzac Day, had received on social media.

The RSL has also encouraged people to take part in a Community Ode by recording a video of themselves reciting The Ode and posting it to social media in the lead-up to Anzac Day.

Where once it would've been frowned upon to be plugged into your phone at dawn on Anzac Day, in a sign of the times this year it will be encouraged as services are streamed across 2AY and Facebook

Let's all do our bit to ensure our veterans know exactly how much we appreciate them on Saturday.

Lest we forget.