Monty Patterson had never seen so much fear in his daughter's blue eyes as he did on the day she died.

"The look to me was like, 'Dad, save me  .… Get me out of this,'" he told Restoration News, recounting the day that has haunted him for decades.

But it was too late. The bacterial infection had taken a hold of 18-year-old Holly Patterson, and her organs were shutting down.

"Code blue!" the ICU doctors shouted as they filled the room and evicted her father into the hall. They frantically worked to save her life, but it was all in vain.

"They came out and said: 'She's gone,'" Monty Patterson said, recalling the tears in the nurses' eyes as they mourned their beautiful young patient's tragic end.

When Holly died in 2003, chemical abortion was still a new phenomenon, having only been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) three years prior. And with the abortion industry and a complicit media touting the two-drug regimen as "safe and effective," what young woman would reasonably expect that it could end her life?

President Donald Trump is fulfilling a once-in-a-lifetime mandate from the people to seal the border tight, deport criminal aliens, and return the country to doing what past leaders failed to do: Put Americans first.

That includes adding additional questions to the U.S. citizenship test, saying the current test is “too easy.” While well-intentioned, this misses the mark. Instead of adding more questions, we should prioritize teaching foundational documents like the Constitution to help legal, patriotic immigrants become U.S. citizens.

True citizenship transcends difficult memorization of more civic questions that leaves applicants panicked in the interview room, reciting facts lacking meaning; it demands instilling a deep grasp of America’s founding principles, values, and the truths that built its exceptionalism, turning privilege into profound, heartfelt belonging and patriotism. You gain this through a deep understanding of what makes us Americans, not through memorizing a set of civic questions and answers.

The future belongs to America's children. No one knows this better than the leftists and social engineers who built our nation's public school system a century ago with the goal of capturing control of future generations of young people, and turning them against the principles that forged America.

That project is at last coming to a close.

Join host Hayden Ludwig and Restoration News Senior Investigative Researcher Victoria Manning, author of "The Department of Education is Even Worse Than You Think," as they dive into President Trump's earth-shattering decision to effectively abolish the U.S. Department of Education for good, only on Restoration Spotlight: