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A new project in historic Franklin will memorialize locals who fought in World War II through the image of one man.

Franklin Special School District Board of Education Chair Robert Blair was presented with the Caroline J. Cross Award by Leadership Franklin’s board of directors Monday night.

Nashville Tennessean Yevette Smith, 57, happily hugged her cat Whisper in a comfortable apartment in Franklin last week as she sat on a fluffy couch recollecting how opposite her life seemed almost a year ago. "Shes been with me through everything," Smith, a California native, said looking down at the faithful Calico companion. Back then, Smith could barely stretch out at night while she slept in her car in a Walmart parking lot. Life was uncomfortable and uncertain. "I was just out there...