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Marine Veteran Turns Trash Into Treasure With Johnny's Junk Art After surviving the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, a Marine Veteran just wanted to come home and sit on a beach in Oceanside. In this Zevely Zone, I met a cancer survivor who turns trash into treasure and calls it Johnny Junk Art. "You just never know what you are going to end up with," said John Young as he pounded on scraps of copper that nobody wanted inside his home art studio. As a child, nobody wanted John. He bounced around in foster care and attended nearly fifty schools. "I'd be in a foster home no more than three or four days," said John while showing me a picture from his childhood. John loves the scraps nobody wants. He turns empty cans into curls and cereal boxes into artistic waves. "That's you, in the tube and you made that out of a cereal box?" I asked. John smiled and said, "That's correct, absolutely that's it." As a helicopter gunner in the Marines, John thought he left the worst of his battles behind in Vietnam. But returning home to the United States came with new challenges. After a successful career as a landscape contractor, John was first diagnosed with thyroid cancer. John never took a single art class, but somehow the scraps nobody wanted seemed worthy of brilliance. Their garden is filled with John's artwork. Through foster care, cancer, and war, John Young wants to grow old on a beach with these words of wisdom. "Well you know there is an old Persian poem, I cried because I had no shoes until I saw a man with no feet, that's a motivator," said John. 3. What kind of thing loved by John?