Some Vietnam War veterans are furious after a Tennessee highway dedicated in their honor was redesignated to memorialize slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
Although several elderly veterans said they supported the late Turning Point USA founder, who was assassinated while speaking on a Utah college campus in September 2025, they questioned why the stretch of road dedicated to honoring their service had to be renamed in Kirk’s memory.
Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway Signs Infuriating Vietnam Vets
Tennessee State Route 386 north of Nashville was designated Vietnam Veterans Boulevard in 1987, but green and white signs calling it the “Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway” began popping up in June, much to the shock of local vets, who were left “blindsided.”
“We woke up to find that there were signs placed on Vietnam Veterans Boulevard, and that road has been designated as a memorial to Vietnam veterans for over four decades,” war veteran and Vanderbilt University professor David Black, 78, fumed to the New York Times…