Niceville Good Neighbor | Howard Hill dedicates decades to providing affordable soccer opportunities for Niceville kids
Howard Hill has spent more than 30 years leading Niceville’s PAL Soccer League, helping provide affordable soccer opportunities for local children. His dedication to youth sports and PAL’s special-needs VIP program earned him August’s Ryan Cabaniss Niceville Good Neighbor Award.
What It’s REALLY Like to Be a POW in a Vietnamese Prison Camp
VIDEO: Retired Air Force Pilot Howard Hill talks about his five years in a Vietnamese Prisoner of War Camp. He tells the harrowing story of his shoot down and capture by communist north Vietnamese militias, his grueling five-year imprisonment in a Hanoi camp for captured Americans, and his release back to his loving wife and family in the United States.
PAL Soccer Opens Fall Registration – Sign Up Details Here
For three decades, Vietnam War Hero Howard Hill has served in a different role – PAL Soccer League President. The fighter pilot and POW has seen the number of players grow every year—from 800 in the early 90s to more than 1,200 last year. They’ve seen growth every year except a dip of 350 kids during the ‘COVID year’ in 2020.
Niceville War Hero Receives Vietnam Memento
A special gift Thank yous come in all sorts of ways. Colonel Howard Hill received his at March’s Niceville-Valparaiso Chamber Breakfast as a small metal bracelet that another airman wore more than 50 years ago. The owner, Lieutenant Colonel Fred Hills, wore it during Howard Hill’s time as a prisoner of war in the […]
