Sarandon (right) and Sheehan on Monday. (Reuters)

Washington, May 15 (AP): Susan Sarandon lent her star power to a Mother’s Day protest against the Iraq war yesterday. “I can’t think of a better way to spend my mothers day,” the actress said.

Sarandon joined anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan onstage at the end of a 24-hour vigil in Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House. She read two letters addressed to Laura Bush, one written by a woman from Oregon and another by herself.

Sarandon’s letter suggested that the first lady urge her husband to personally notify some mothers whose children died while serving in Iraq.

“Those moms praying as they wait for the phone to ring and they hear the voice of their child serving in Iraq,” she said to a crowd of perhaps 200 people. “Let him be the one to tell them that this week the call will not be coming.”