The termination of an organization doesn’t mean the termination of a friendship
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Karel Kahoun was born in 1935. He grew up in Horažďovice where he also joined a scout troop after the war. After 1948, he was prevented from studying at a grammar school since his family was very religious and he graduated from the Higher School of Economics in Pilsen instead. Then he attended the Pedagogical Faculty in Pilsen, studying natural sciences. At the time he also led an illegal scout troop. After a short time he was teaching in Březnov near Chomutov, he was conscripted to military service. After a short while, he was arrested and interrogated for four months in Pilsen. He was convicted of scouting and sentenced to forced labor in the uranium mines in Jáchymov. After his release, he worked as a roadman and later as a vet in the Prague Zoo. He later graduated from the High School of Arts and then studied speech therapy and special education at the Pedagogical Faculty in Prague. He also picked up again the study of natural sciences but never finished it. He was married and had nine children (three of his own and six in foster care). For twelve years he was a member of the city council in Mníšek pod Brdy.
