Mela Helmer of Rogers was watching the news at noon Tuesday when she saw CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier being carried from a plane at Ramstein Air Force Base in southwestern Germany.

Holding the end of the stretcher was her daughter, 1st Lt. Violet Helmer, 26, a critical care nurse who works in transport between the base and Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Helmer picked up the phone and called her husband, Capt. Charles Helmer of Temple Fire and Rescue, who later saw his daughter on the five o