SAN FRANCISCO, April 2: Declaring that he believes all wars are immoral, a 20-year-old Marine Corps reservist surrendered to military authorities in San Jose on Tuesday morning after more than a month of absence.

“The military coerces people into killing,” Lance Corporal Stephen Eagle Funk told a small crowd of reporters. “I may not be a hero but I know it takes courage to disobey.”

Funk, who was due to be sent for combat duty, is opposed to the use of war as a way of solving problems. “This war is very immoral because of the deception involved by our leaders. It is very hypocritical.”

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