Kao's children and grandchildren have accepted the result. "We're just a bit disappointed, that's all," Kao Sung-shou says. Out of filial affection, they wanted the spirit of their father to be remembered in the Martyrs 'Shrine, just as the Kao family had erected a flagpole in front of the family temple when their grandfather passed the provincial examination.
高家子孫對此結果倒是坦然接受，「只是很遺憾而已」，高松壽表示，之所以希望將父靈入祀忠烈祠，只是為了盡一分子孫的孝心，爭得家族的光榮。