80 years after helping prepare British troops for the D-Day landings in France as a signaller, Dorothea Barron teaches yoga in her English village at the age of 100. "Everybody had this spirit in the war: 'We do not want the Nazis in England, get rid of them'," says the centenarian who signed up aged 18 for the Women's Royal Naval Service.
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00:00It's so heavy, I've got one still upstairs, I think, of the old...
00:06Every vertebra in your back, resting on the floor, even the back of your neck.
00:16Oh, we were broadcasting over our tannoys and over our loudspeakers and in morse code,
00:28talking to other ships about it.
00:32Oh, we were very excited that was over, but the war still went on and we knew it still went on.
00:40So we'd done one victory, now we've got to make for the next one.
00:46It was a feeling of partly winning, but we'd still got to go on.
00:55Now you're going to stretch to one side, it doesn't matter.
01:01Let gravity do the work.
01:05Lower those feet to the floor above your head.
01:11Don't rush.
01:13Everybody had this spirit in the war.
01:21We do not want the Nazis in England.
01:25Get rid of them.
01:27And once we got rid of them there, we thought, we'll get you out of Europe too.
01:32You're too near to us.
01:34And we got rid of the wicked Nazi regime.
01:38Slowly try to take your left knee to the...
01:44Round your back.
01:48Now press on you.
01:50And come up into job pose.
01:56This side.
01:57These are all exercises you can do.
02:00Dropping your wrists.
02:02They should be made up.
02:04It's so useless war.
02:10Warfare can't be decided by killing.
02:14It can only be decided by bloody men knocking their heads together.
02:21Making sense of life.
02:23It's the women who pick up all the consequences of war.
02:29They have to bring up children with no father.
02:33And very little money.
02:36And the men don't realise nobody wins.
02:42Everybody loses.
02:45I refuse to be.