Lieutenant Colonel Fred Hills now lives in a memory care unit. North Vietnam routinely tortured and mistreated POWs, especially airmen – whom they considered ‘air pirates.’ The North Vietnamese believed this claim allowed them to mistreat American Airmen and Sailors they captured. The Convention required captors to treat prisoners humanely. They also were used to pressure governments and world leaders to demand North Vietnam, the enemy of the United States in the war, honor the Geneva Convention. The bracelets served as a reminder of Hill’s daily sacrifice. The owner, Lieutenant Colonel Fred Hills, wore it during Howard Hill’s time as a prisoner of war in the Vietnam Conflict. 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.
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