"My family didn't talk about it, they talked very little about it," she recalled Wednesday. "My parents were first-generation, they were young first-generation. And I'm a second-generation, but a lot of my friends were third-generation. But regardless, the culture was such with the Japanese that they really never — and this is important, too — they really didn't speak harshly about what had happened to them. And I remember talking to my parents, and there are two words that the Japanese use a lot," Yuille said. Those phrases translate into "it can't be helped" and "to endure and to persevere." "Those two words encompasses the culture and the feeling of the people who were put in these camps," she said.