Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin spoke at a Stryker Brigade deployment ceremony at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Thursday, September 11, 2008. The governor's son, Track, is a member of the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team 25th Infantry Division Arctic Wolves, which will be deploying to Iraq. (Bob Hallinen/Anchorage Daily News/MCT)