THE soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines — the “Devil Dogs” — were stunned. After 25 days of intense urban warfare, hundreds of casualties and repeated declarations of America’s determination to crush the enemy, they and the three other US Marine battalions in Fallujah were abruptly ordered yesterday to pull out. “It’s kinda bad when you’ve had friends who’ve sacrificed everything, then you’ve had to hand it over to someone else,” Corporal Travis Box, staring at the ground in his forward base, said. “We weren’t doing it for tangible things. We were doing it for intangible things like pride...