'Nobody wins' in war, says 100-year-old yoga-teaching WWII veteran

The Manila Times

'Nobody wins' in war, says 100-year-old yoga-teaching WWII veteran  80 years after helping prepare British troops for the D-Day landings in France as a signaler, 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.   AFP VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe   Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net   Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion   Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein  #TheManilaTimes #worldnews  #worldwarii

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00:00It's so heavy, I've got one still upstairs, I think, of the old one.

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.

00:54Now you're going to stretch to one side, it doesn't matter what.

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,

01:30we'll get you out of Europe too, you'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 floor.

01:46Round your back.

01:48Now press on you.

01:50And come up.

01:53It's a job pose.

01:56Side.

01:57These are all exercises you can do.

02:01Dropping your wrists, they should be made up.

02:04This is what you're going to do.

02:06It's so useless war.

02:11Warfare 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 and very little money.

02:36And the men don't realise nobody wins.

02:44Everybody loses.

02:46I'm doing some bombs.

02:47I've been, fuzz, baskets of paper.

02:49I've been doing chores.

02:51I've been doing chores.

02:53I've been doing chores.

02:55I've been doing chores.

02:56Well, the poison was for the cake, but...

02:59How is that not?

03:01Is that good?

03:03Is that good?

03:04Is that good?

03:05I...

03:06Alright.

03:07I'll see you next time.

03:09Bye.

03:37Bye.

03:39Bye.

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