There is almost nothing as sad as the death of a young person. And it’s something we find ourselves doing all too often. Today we're reporting on two such incidents.

It’s an all too familiar scene. Officers standing at attention as the coffin containing a comrade goes by.

The long blue line formed once again this morning outside the Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul in Center City for the funeral of Delaware River Port Authority Cpl. Christopher Milito, of Upper Providence.

He was killed last weekend while doing what he did so often, coming to a motorist’s aid on the Walt Whitman Bridge. Milito was struck and killed by another motorist.

He has that in common with William James Bradley V. The Interboro High School student was riding his bike home from school on South Avenue in Glenolden Tuesday afternoon when he was struck by a car. He died of his injuries.

Yesterday, his classmates gathered near the scene to honor their friend.
Last night they held a candlelight vigil there to remember a guy who friends said "made everybody smile.”

Milito was 40. Bradley was just 17. Both gone way too young.

Too much of what we report every day is just overwhelmingly sad.

None more so than today.