Maybe, has she ALREADY been drawing it?
What if she has remarried? Naw, she didn't look like the type, IIRC...
She's probably been getting survivor benefits. If six burly lance-corporals suddenly carry Speicher alive out of a spectacularly short-lived Iraqi pesthole, the DK's will probably be put to work furiously computing the value of his back pay, and then backing out the benefit payments as dead horses.
They'll still be honeymooning in a new car, before coming back down to earth and the remedial psych work.
Then there'll be the matter of his flying career.
Yeah, that'd be a pile of work for the bureaucracy and the command higher-ups. If he was a light commander when captured, he'd be immediately eligible, timewise, for four stripes -- having never done anything to prepare himself for them w/ respect to flying duties, squadron command, War College, bla bla bla. They'll put the stripes on him, but they'll really have to scratch head to find something for him to do, and bump butt to prepare him for reentry and his new duties after 10 years lived at the most elemental level.
After the cheering died down, it'd be a real load for everybody.