Empty barracks welcome returning soldiers, VFW fills gap

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Empty barracks welcome returning soldiers, VFW fills gap

FORT CARSON, Colo (KRDO) - There's never a more patriotic scene than that at Fort Carson's Special Events Center: returning soldiers wearing fatigues, marching into awaiting families squealing with delight, bouncing babies meeting dad for the first time. It's a much-deserved end to the soldiers' time overseas. But, after the welcome home ceremony comes, the single soldiers-- those who live in the barracks-- often return to a shell of a room.  No…