evidence: Marc Thiessen wrote that the U.S. women’s national soccer team denied team members turned their backs on a 98-year-old World War II veteran who played the national anthem before an exhibition game. The fact is that they turned to face the U.S. flag during the anthem and turned and applauded the vet when he was finished and gave him an autographed soccer ball. BBC News confirmed this in the article, "US Soccer: 'No female players turned their backs on WW2 veteran." [...] Editor's note: The claim that the U.S. women's soccer team players turned their backs on a World War II veteran during the national anthem is false, according to research by USA Today and other fact-check organizations.