** FILE ** A mother talks to her son before his college entrance exam in front of a statue of the late Taiwanese leader Gen. Chiang Kai-shek at the Taipei Technical College in this July 2, 1999 file photo in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan's military has quietly removed statues of Chiang from its bases, a move the grandson of the former general condemned Monday as showing "ingratitude" toward the island's modern founder. Over the past two decades, hundreds of Chiang statues have been removed from public parks, schools and government offices as officials said they were remnants of the island's authoritarian past. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)