Why should Sgt. Speer's widow be able to collect anything? He was a soldier who was killed in combat in a war, the same as millions of soldiers before him. Should the widow of every American or Canadian soldier who was killed in combat in Afghanistan or Iraq collect a huge sum of money? Sgt. Speer's death is a tragedy for his family but there's nothing about it that is out of the ordinary in wartime or deserving of compensation.