Gen. James Amos, the commandant of the Marine Corps, said Thursday that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell should be repealed as soon as this summer—and he compared the holdouts to the Alamo.

Amos mentioned another close call. During the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, his office was destroyed by the jetliner that flew into the Pentagon. At the time, Amos was elsewhere in the ...

In the runup to the vote in the Senate, Gen. James Amos, the Marine Corps commandant, showed how he felt about the prospect of open homosexuals serving in the Marines. He was particularly ...