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(CNSNews.com) -- Cindy Sheehan has announced that she plans to return "very soon" to her anti-war vigil in Crawford, Tex. When she does, she'll find she has some company, according to the conservative group leading the "You Don't Speak for Me, Cindy" tour.

Move America Forward, a national organization "that supports American troops and the war against terrorism," is leading the tour, which begins Monday morning. Heading the delegation is Deborah Johns of Northern California Marine Moms, whose son, William, has served two tours of duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

The caravan kicks off in San Francisco, where Melanie Morgan of KSFO 560 AM will lead her listeners along the first leg of the caravan. Morgan will also travel to Dallas, Tex., on Friday to join the final two legs of the caravan into Crawford.

"For the past few weeks, this nation has heard from those voices in America who advocate surrender in the war against terrorism," said Morgan, who also serves as chairman of Move America Forward. "Now, it's time to hear from the other side of this debate.

"We are going to rally Americans together to show the terrorists overseas that our nation has not lost its resolve nor its nerve to prevail in the fight against their violent, extremist agenda," Morgan added.

When the caravan arrives in Sacramento, Calif., it will stop at the studios of KFBK 1530 AM, where KFBK's Mark Williams will interview the caravan attendees as he fills in on the "Tom Sullivan Show." Williams will get live reports on the caravan each day before he flies to Dallas, Tex., on Friday to join the final two legs of the caravan into Crawford.

"Since our region of northern California is the place Cindy Sheehan calls home, we owe it to the nation to present another voice from this area," Williams said. "That's why Deborah Johns, the Marine mother, and I are heading to Crawford, Texas.

"We have a message for the president and the American people: Now is not the time to pull our support from the heroic mission our sons and daughters are serving in Iraq," Williams noted.

From Sacramento, the caravan will head through Fresno, Bakersfield, Los Angeles and San Diego before traveling to Phoenix, Ariz., and then to Albuquerque, N.M. Once in Texas, the caravan will pick up supporters at stops at Amarillo, Fort Worth, Dallas and Waco before arriving in Crawford.

Talk show host Martha Zoller of WDUN 550 AM in Atlanta/Gainesville is also heading to Dallas to join the final two legs of the caravan. She's invited her listeners to join the caravan and pro-troop rally in Crawford on Saturday, August 27.

"I'm going on the tour because of the American heroes who have lost their lives in the global war on terror," Zoller said. "Casey Sheehan is an American hero, and he had to live with the knowledge that his mother didn't understand what he was doing ... he had to die with that knowledge, too.

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