RevWar
RevWar is an accepted abbreviation among those of us who devote a significant amount of our time studying it, reading about it and looking to our Founders as continued inspiration.
Who peed in your gruel this morning, good sir?
Your Obdt. & Humble Svt.,
P_____y
I suppose we do use things like WW2, Nam, and CW2 quite a bit. Now if we start hashtagging stuff, then that’s is very hipster!
Also, I’ve never actually liked the name “Revolutionary War”
It wasn’t the only revolution that ever took place and it wasn’t revolutionary in terms of being something new or novel. It was the American Revolution...ok my nitpicking is done.
we now refer to the event that led to the forging of the United States of America as...
RevWar
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If one notices (how can you miss) how the ‘Founding Fathers’ and yesterdays ‘heroes/icons’ are portrayed in -say- Presidents Day sales - as pitchmen and caricatures...
When MLK was given his ‘day’ the ‘generic warning’ went up that in 25 or so years after being given a day, one mustn’t get ‘upset’ when MLK is shown wearing a robe, a crown while ‘pimping’ a MLK Day sale or event.
Of course ‘we’ have WWI and WWII (that be WW EYE and WW EYE EYE” kind of like the ‘joke’ of the Roman walking into a bar holding up two fingers and saying “gimmee five beers”.
It’s common speak even amongst absolute nuts, reenactors and so on. Definitely easier in writing when everyone knows what it is.
How about this: AmRevWar. That covers every short version.