Three buses - for northern, central and southern routes - will depart Wednesday from the makeshift camp started by Californian Cindy Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son Casey, a 1st Cavalry Division soldier, was killed in 2004 in Iraq.

Several organizations are sponsoring the "Bring Them Home Now Tour” and an anti-war march is scheduled for Sept. 24 in Washington, D.C.

Some conservative groups are planning counter events in the nation's capital that weekend.

Some pro-Bush rallies also are expected in cities along the bus tour, but in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, they’re not likely to receive the same media attention as Sheehan died when she began her vigil on Aug. 6 near the President’s ranch, vowing to remain until Mr. Bush either agreed to meet with her or until the President returned to Washington.

Her protest was interrupted for about a week after her mother suffered a stroke, but Sheehan returned to Central Texas last week to resume her vigil, which has attracted such celebrities as Rev. Al Sharpton, actor Martin Sheen and folksinger Joan Baez.

Sheehan told The Associated Press Tuesday that she’s glad the President didn’t agree to meet with her.

"I look back on it, and I am very, very, very grateful he did not meet with me, because we have sparked and galvanized the peace movement. If he'd met with me, then I would have gone home, and it would have ended there,” she said.

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