Deputy Presiding Officer, the Member outlines the people who work so hard in Islwyn to ensure that this remembrance takes place in a way that values and appreciates and demonstrates the national value and appreciation that we all feel for those who have served. The speech that she made, describing those great people in Islwyn, could be made by each one of us, I think, describing those same people in our own constituencies who work so hard to ensure that the remembrance events that will be taking place in every community across Wales and elsewhere this weekend are events that do commemorate and reflect upon the sacrifices made.

The Member, Deputy Presiding Officer, made mention of local authority champions. I think it's important that we do recognise the work of local authorities in delivering many of the services that we have described and debated this afternoon. The work of the champions in each local authority is to ensure that local authorities do work cohesively and holistically to deliver the sort of services that veterans need, require and have an absolute right to do so. Can I say—? Through the Cymru'n Cofio series of events, a programme that we've followed over the last four years, I hope that we have sought to remember and to understand what war actually is and the sacrifices that were made by people who had no idea of what they would face in the trenches and elsewhere.

I think one of the most poignant things I've seen in recent weeks in the period running up to this armistice commemoration was the colourisation of some of those video clips that we've seen. All of us over the years have seen the same video footage of men walking, all too often to their deaths, across northern France. And, you know, when they're colourised, you see their faces in a different way, and they look just like you and they look just like me.

I hope that all of us, when we flash across northern France on the Eurostar, will look out across those fields and will understand that it is just a little more than a lifetime ago that those fields were not green pastures but were mud and blood of people who died in a futile war, which we assure people that we remember today, and the greatest act of remembrance can be that we will continue to remember their sacrifices but also remember what war is, and remember the words of Dai Lloyd in saying that what we have to do is always to ensure that we do not send our people to war unless it is to defend the interests and the life and the freedoms of this country.