Family Rejoices at Missing Soldier's Rescue

April 2 -- Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch's family is on cloud nine over her rescue from Iraqi captors, but they're still praying for the other missing soldiers who were in her unit.

In a press conference today, Gregory Lynch Sr., Jessica's father, said the family couldn't wait to "tell her that we love her, and the little brat caused a big stir."

The Lynch family got the good news at about 6 p.m. Tuesday. Greg Lynch Sr. said it took him a while to believe it, and now he can't wait to see his 19-year-old daughter again.

"I'm just going to hug her, and no reporters better get in the way," Jessica's father said on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America today. "We're real proud that they went in and got her, it's hard to think about the others and we hope all the other soldiers come home and are well too," he said.

By this evening, the family had received the call from Jessica that they had been waiting for. During the 10-minute phone call, she sounded as though she was in good spirits, and said that she had not eaten in eight days, Greg Lynch Sr. said. The family expects her to call again Thursday morning.

Lynch's brother and a National Guard member, Greg Lynch Jr., said "it felt good" to see his sister on TV after not knowing where she was for more than a week.

"We're still in the dark and don't know her condition," her brother said. "If Mom and Dad could hear her voice, it would bring the family morale up a little."

Top-Secret Rescue

In his morning briefing from Central Command in Qatar, Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks showed video of U.S. troops carrying Jessica Lynch on a stretcher to a waiting helicopter after she was rescued in a daring raid at a hospital in the south-central Iraqi town of Nasiriyah.

She had been held as a prisoner of war since her unit, the 507th Maintenance Company, was attacked by Iraqis on March 23.

The rescued American POW arrived at a U.S. air base in southwestern Germany aboard a C-17 transport plane late this evening, for treatment at a U.S. military medical center.