Nicole O’Shea with her service dog Socks, who has been with her through her sometimes difficult recovery from a traffic collision that prematurely ended her military service.
November 10, 2022
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Traffic collision leads to new path for Quincy veteran
QUINCY — Nicole O’Shea said she had planned out at least some of her future, starting with her enlistment in the U.S. Army. And then all of a sudden everything changed. It was the winter of 2004, and she was on her way from Quincy to Yakima for training. “It was February and it was super-foggy,” O’Shea said. “I had to pull over to clean my windshield off, so I could see. I got rear-ended at 70 miles an hour; I was almost at a complete stop. Rocked my world, in a not-so-good way.” At the time O’Shea said she thought she was okay...