Nothing to be proud of.

There are two really annoying aspects regarding the death of Donald Levine the creator of G.I. Joe action figures. One, that he's being praised at all for creating a doll that only foments in children the desire to go to war and kill, kill, kill. The other is how stupidly the media fall in line with the insanely cliche appellation, "the father of G.I. Joe". Sorry Donald Levine died of cancer. But I don't think creating a war doll is a good reason to show respect to someone. He lived till 86. So many of the real G.I. Joes didn't even live till 20.