Another Sig Ep Killed in Iraq

The war in Iraq continues to take a toll on our Brotherhood.

A University student who was serving in the Marines was killed in Fallujah, Iraq, Friday leaving his fraternity brothers without the one they affectionately called "Dad Arms."

Bradley Thomas Arms, a 20-year-old from Charlottesville, Va., left the University this past summer before his junior year to answer the call to go to Iraq with eagerness and a sense of duty, his brothers said.

Taylor Stanfill, a sophomore from Marietta and a Sigma Phi Epsilon brother, said Arms earned his nickname by being older than a lot of guys in his pledge class.

"All Marines can take one personal item, Brad took the UGA flag to keep with him," said [his father] Bob Arms. "He also loved UGA football, and asked me to send him tapes of the games."

Through hand-written letters and e-mails to the fraternity Listserv, fraternity brothers got frequent insight into how life was for their friend overseas.

Charlie Britt, a junior from Atlanta who shared a room with Arms at the Sig Eps fraternity house last spring, said he corresponded with Arms several times through letters and e-mail and even spoke to him on instant messenger two weeks ago.

"He'd always speak of coming home," Britt said.

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