here's janice mackie frayer in thailand. >> reporter: tonight, the teens the world has been cheeringor. smiling in their uniforms and back playing soccer, revealing for the first time how they survived those ten days they were lost inside the cave. "i tried not to think about food so i didn't get 11 is the youngest in the group. they talked about what they called a miracle. >> how many of you? 13? brilliant. >> reporter: it was captured the world's attention. >> you speak english? >> a little. >> "i heard people talking and wasn't sure it was a hallucination." their faces now showing little trace of their terrifying ordeal, describing how they licked water off walls to stay alive and conserved batteries in their one flashlight. at the press conference, they hugged family and friends, and mourned the former navy s.e.a.l. thai diver that died "i want to be a professional soccer player,dom says, but i also want to be a navy s.e.a.l." >> you must be very excited to get him home. his grandmother who raises him, tells us they're just thankful he's getting a second chance at life. a hero's