american protesters against the war forced congress to end the funding of the war, and forced the republican president to end the war. it took years, but the peace protesters one. the protesters began as the protest to the military draft the ascending unwilling american to nature s to fight and die in a faraway war that made no sense. tonight, russia seems to be experiencing a version of what this country experienced in the 1960s and 1970s, right up until the day when president richard nixon ended the draft in june of 1973. video today shows a gunman opening fire at the draft office in siberia. russian officials report that the gunman seriously injured a recruiting officer before being apprehended. the washington post is reporting that the shooter s mother told local media that her son was upset because his best friend got a mobilization summons, despite never having served in the army.