A rousing speech that spurs soldiers, or anyone really, to action. The most significant example is Col. George Taylor’s speech on Omaha Beach on D-Day: “There are two kinds of men on this beach: the dead, and those about to die. So let’s get the hell out of here!” The exact wording varies among movies and sources.  Robert Mitchum, playing Brigadier General Norman Cota, gives a version of it in The Longest Day.

This particular speech is delivered so poorly in The Big Red One that it has become the new inside joke in our family—”There are two kinds of tomatoes in this refrigerator: those that are rotten and those that are gonna be rotten, so let’s eat those tomatoes!”