Current KMT chairman Ma Ying-jeou added a footnote to the national lowering of the flag to half mast in commemoration of 228 Memorial Day that began last year by calling the victims of the incident "national martyrs."
現任國民黨主席馬英九對從去年起的「228 紀念日」當天全國降半旗措施，下了「國殤」的註腳。