WASHINGTON, May 14 (Xinhua) -- "Disarm! Disarm! Mothers say 'no' to the war!" -- that is the strong message of hundreds of U.S. mothers sent to the White House on the country's Mother's Day, which falls on Sunday.

    Between Saturday and Sunday, hundreds of U.S. mothers and their supporters are gathering in the Lafayette Square in front of the White House, holding a 24-hour vigil to call for an end to the Iraq war and stand against an attack on Iran.

    All dressed in the peace-symbolic pink T-shirts, mothers from all over the country expressed their willing in the placards and flags, which carry words like "No blood for oil!", "Yes to peace, no to war!", "attack Iran no!" and "Not next month, not next year, end war now!"

    The event was featured by Cindy Sheehan, a Californian mother who became a leading anti-war activist after the death of her son, a former U.S. soldier in Iraq two years ago.

    "This Sunday will be the third Mother's Day that I have spent without my oldest child in my life. Casey (Cindy's son) was killed in Iraq exactly five weeks before Mother's Day in 2004," Cindy wrote in a letter to all U.S. mothers.

    "We demand an end to the occupation of Iraq before too many more Cindys and Caseys are produced ... Fighting a war on terror with a War of Terror to enrich the war machine is not a noble cause. Peace is," she said.

    On the special day, Cindy's feeling is shared by many other mothers like Elaine Brower, who said she is uneasy all the time because her son is fighting in Iraq.

    "My son told me about many terrible things that happened in Iraq, " the New York mother told Xinhua. "Three years after invasion, there are still chaos all the time."

    "I don't understand why some people are so obsessed with war. In my view, any kind of war, whatever the excuse is, is killing people. I don't want our children to go to another country to kill their children. I want my son back."

    O' Hanlan Katherine, a mother from Wisconsin, said the war is totally a waste of lives and money.

    "We have lost 2,436 soldiers and spent 281 billion U.S. dollars and there is no so-called Weapons of Mass Destruction," She noted.

    "We should repeatedly send the message to those politicians: stop lying, end the war!"

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