[3] During her service in Vietnam, she was stationed at the communications center at Long Binh Army base,[3] fifty miles north of Saigon, where she processed all casualty reports of Southeast Asia.

Former Maine Governor Angus King commissioned her to honorary Colonel rank, and he appointed her as Aide de Camp to advise him on women veteran's affairs.

[9] Finally, in April 2008, Loring put before the legislature HP 1681, "Joint Resolution in the Support of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

She published a memoir about her years in the Maine Legislature called In the Shadow of the Eagle (2008), which was favorably reviewed in a leading Native American Studies journal, among other sources.

[12][13] After studying with the playwright William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., Loring also wrote a musical drama called "The Glooskape Chronicles: Creation and the Venetian Basket," which received national coverage in the newspaper Indian Country Today.