Crawford, Texas ? The mother of a fallen U.S. soldier who is holding a roadside peace vigil near President Bush’s ranch shares the same grief as relatives mourning the deaths of Ohio Marines, yet their views about the war differ.

“I’m angry. I want the troops home,” said Cindy Sheehan, 48, of Vacaville, Calif., who staged a protest that she vowed on Sunday to continue until she can personally ask Bush: “Why did you kill my son? What did my son die for?”

Sheehan was among grieving military families who met with Bush in June 2004 at Fort Lewis, near Seattle, Wash. That was just two months after her son, Casey, was killed in Sadr City, Iraq, on April 4, 2004.

Since then, she said, various reports have disputed the Bush administration’s claims that Saddam Hussein had mass-killing chemical and biological weapons – a main justification for the March 2003 invasion.

Sheehan talked for about 45 minutes on Saturday with Steve Hadley, Bush’s national security adviser, and Joe Hagin, deputy White House chief of staff, who went out to hear her concerns.

Appreciative of their attention, yet undaunted, Sheehan said she planned to continue her protest along the road during Bush’s stay through the end of the month.

“If he doesn’t come out and talk to me in Crawford, I’ll follow him to D.C.,” she said. “I’ll camp on his lawn in D.C. until he has the courtesy and the integrity and the compassion to talk to somebody whose life he has ruined.”