Aftermath
Funk was confined in the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base Brig and served 5 months of a 6 month sentence. During his confinement antiwar activists organized a major protest outside the base along with a bus tour of speakers traveling the east coast. It was coordinated with rallies in several major cities including San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, New Orleans, Paris, & London.
Upon release Funk returned to the San Francisco Bay Area enrolling at Stanford University to study international relations. He continued his peace activism becoming an honorary founding member of Iraq Veterans Against the War in 2004. Funk is also founder and artistic director of Veteran Artists, an organization "founded and run by recent military veterans connecting other veterans with community resources to pursue artistic opportunities."
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