Forget-Me-Nots

It was the worst dilemma any mother had to face.

When Crete and her husband emigrated to Canada from Germany in 1919, she gave birth to twins Rhinehart and Karl.

With one son in the German army and the other in the Canadian military, it was an ongoing nightmare every time she listened to the war broadcasts, with no news from either of them.

Her only consolation was that they would look after each other, and every Spring when she would look out her bedroom window to see the Forget-Me-Nots blooming on the hillside and in her mind's eye Rhinehart as a boy picking a fistful of them for her.